Russian Forces Destroyed the Wild and Beautiful Art of Maria Prymachenko

[L. Coyote]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyp5m7/russian-forces-destroyed-the-wild-and-beautiful-art-of-ukrainian-painter-maria-prymachenko

During a recent battle, a museum near the beloved Ukrainian painter’s hometown burned to the ground, reportedly ruining about 25 of her works.

Amid the intense battles that broke out approximately 50 miles northwest of Kyiv on February 25 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned, according to The Kyiv Independent. “Another one of the irreparable losses of the historical-cultural authority of Ukraine is the destruction of the Ivankiv Historical-Cultural Museum by the aggressor in these hellish days for our country,” wrote the museum’s director in a message on Facebook. As a result, the Ukrainian Minister of Culture, Olexandr Tkachenko, requested that Russia lose its UNESCO membership.

It is not yet confirmed how many pieces in the museum’s holdings survive, but the destroyed artifacts reportedly include roughly 25 works by the celebrated Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko, who died in 1997 at the age of 88. Beloved for her saturated gouaches and watercolors on paper, Prymachenko was known to transform cultural motifs (yellow suns and graphic, stencil-like flowers) into vivid and wildly imagined narratives, in which elephants longed to be sailors, horses traveled to outer space, and villagers hijacked giant serpents. Today, nearly 650 of her works, dating from 1936 to 1987, are held by the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Applied Art, in nearby Kyiv. Whether or not the Ivankiv museum was targeted intentionally, its loss is pointedly a blow to Ukraine’s cultural history, its collective spirit, its artistic soul.

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[fierywoman]

1. The mofus also bombed the opera house in the second biggest city in Ukraine.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. What is this, that destroying priceless art is now sports for putin's thugs?

I love the works by this artist, and perhaps one good thing that may happen from this, that it'll spotlight her remaining pictures, and cause the market for this artist's (and other similar Ukrainian artists' works) to increase in more exposure, more demand, perhaps get better prices for the artists.

[Igel]

3. It appeared to me ( "I saw", sort of)

that there will be such love on Earth! There will be harmony.

(My Ukr is strongly influenced by Russian, neither native.)