And this is what passes for art in Ukraine these days. This gentleman thinks he is being ignored because there is some sort of a political message in his “art.” The possibility that he is simply lacking in talent does not occur to him.
20 responses to “Ukrainian Art”
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Reading the publicity- I found his art is almost forbidden by the censorship in his home country (http://kolyada.com/Bio.htm)
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This seems a publicity strategy, nothing else.
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Do you think the artist is rich enough to “buy” the Ukrainian, European and American journalists’ opinion?
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Precisely because he is not rich enough to buy it, he tries to manipulate it with false tales of persecution and censorship. I only discovered him because he placed me on a list of bloggers he chain-emailed with the story of his “subversive” art.
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I don’t agree… this guy is on wikipedia among the famous ball-point pen artists – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen_artwork
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Do you like his art? We all have our own understanding of what is beautiful, and if this appeals to you, that’s great. To me, it looks too much like the stuff that was sold at the entrance to every subway station for 3 hrvnas back in the 1990s. But any appreciation of any aesthetic object is better than no appreciation of no aesthetic object.
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only the dark genius like Stalin and Hitler could manipulate people’ minds
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I found besides- he is a member of radical art movement in Ukraine here: http://www.antins.net
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But don’t you see that the artists strivres to bring up to date soviet socialist realism in the post-USSR era? 🙂
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It’s clear the artist has a fair bit of technical skill, but the composition, design, and shading are all hideously ugly.
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WTF, that is some seriously ugly shit. It reminded me of when we were in Montreal this weekend and we went to the Musee de Beaux Arts, in the front of the Quebec gallery there was this hideous painting of humanlike beavers being killed by ugly trappers and natives with the beaver souls going to heaven, my brother and I thought it was the ugliest, most ghastly painting we have ever seen. Reckon some people think shock is good enough as talent.
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Thank you! I was starting to believe something was wrong with me if I couldn’t appreciate this.
And I’m also envious that you were in Montreal over the weekend! 🙂
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Nah, you’re fine, this looks like mediochre tattoo art. I appreciate the technical skill in drawing it in ballpoint pen, but other than that the pictures are extremely boring.
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Spasibo, ma’am. We all went because we all had Thanksgiving weekend off, we saw the Musee de Beaux Arts and did a lot of shopping at the underground malls and drove to the top of Mont Royal, we also ate very good 😀 Plus, RDS is an awesome channel and it’s weird to see Eminem with French subtitles on MusicPlus.
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What a horrible website.
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Ukranian art is traditionally very happy and colorful. Where the Russians built scary gray churches, Ukrainians covered their with paintings of cucumbers and tomatoes.
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I think the artist tries to show the real life in Ukraine, not as it is shown in Russian mass-media… by the way they have the new revolution there now in Ukraine and one of my friends on Facebook from Ukraine told me- the protestors made a lot of prints of his piece- where the artist depicted the Ukrainian politicians as vampires- real strong metaphore. This is that piece: http://kolyada.com/Independence.jpg The protestors spread the prints among the Ukrainians…
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