Byzantine traditions influenced art in Ukraine, such as the mosaics and frescoes of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv from that period. Portrait painting emerged as a separate genre during the Renaissance, often depicting nobles and Cossack chiefs. In the 18th century, many Ukrainian painters were attracted to study at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, bringing their work more in line with European classical styles. Ukrainian art in the 19th century was closely connected to the work of Taras Shevchenko, and landscape painting grew as a separate genre represented by artists like Ivan Sochenko, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Ivan Aivazovskyi. In the 20th century, art

4. Byzantine traditions were a model.
Mosaic and frescos of St. Sophia
Cathedral in Kyiv is one of the most
distinguished among the memorials of
that period.

5. Portrait painting as a
separate genre appeared during
the Renaissance (16th century)
Portrait
included
The
nobles
Cossack
chiefs.

6. Many Ukrainian painters
were attracted to the new
Academy of Arts in St
Petersburg (1757), which cultivated
the classicist style of painting then
popular in Europe.
D.
Levytskyi
Well-known
Ukrainian
artists
K.
Holovach
evskyi
V.
Borovyko
vskyi.

8. Ukrainian art of the middle of
the 19th century was closely
connected with the name of T.
Shevchenko.
During the 19th century
landscape painting appeared as a
separate genre.
Painters of this period
I. Sochenko
A. Kuindzhi
I. Aivazovskyi
S. Vasylkivskyi
I. Pokhytonov

9. Odesa art school and Kyiv drawing
school occupied an important place at the
beginning of the 20th century.
Outstanding artists such as Mykola
Murashko and Mykola Pymonenko were
prominent representatives of that time.

10. It was represented by
A. Petrytskyi and V. Yermylov. O. Ekster
propagated the ideas of cubiform
futurism in painting and worked in
Kyiv. O. Bohomazov experimented with
abstraction, Yurii Mykhailiv continued
the traditions of the symbolists.
An original phenomenon of the early
20th century was Mykhailo Boichuk Art
School. It combined the traditions of
folk picture, local primitive painting and
the principles of religion art.

11. Ukrainian art of Soviet period is
represented by many talented painters as
T. Yablonska, Y. Bokchai, O.
Shovkunenko, R. Selskyi, S. Shyshko, V.
Zaretskyi and M. Pryimachenko.