Maria primachenko folk art

We’ve been remiss and haven’t posted any folk art for quite some time. We hope to make it up to you by posting these amazing folk art paintings of Maria Prymachenko. The Ukrainian artist ha…

Maria Prymachenko, Ukrainian Village Folk Art Painter

Maria Prymachenko Show in Lviv 2009 | Taras Boychuk | Flickr

Maria Prymachenko Show in Lviv 2009 | Taras Boychuk | Flickr

12 January is the birthday anniversary of Mariya Prymachenko, a legendary Ukrainian folk painter. The artist was born in 1909 and lived her whole life, until 1997, in Ukraine. She is known as an icon of Naïve Art in Ukraine. Her mystical beasts have become emblematic of the whole Ukrainian folk tradition, which surrounded Prymachenko in her childhood: her...

naïve :: by Maria Prymachenko

Maria Prymachenko, the famous Ukrainian folk artist (näive art)

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Her paintings usually depicted fabulous mythological beasts, which took their roots in folk legends as well as fairy-tales, fostered bу real life and Ukrainian culture. To honor the artist the year 2009 was recognized Primachenko year by UNESCO. A small planet 14624 was given the name "Primachenko". Likhachev boulevard, the street in the center of Kyiv, was renamed to Primachenko boulevard.

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

Pablo Picasso once said after visiting a Prymachenko exhibition in Paris, “I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.” The year 2009 was declared the Year of Maria Prymachenko by the UNESCO Invading Russian forces destroyed a museum in Ivankiv (a city northwest of the capital Kyiv), that was home to dozens of works by the Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko on Sunday 28 February 2022.

Maria Prymachenko