For #GooseDay 🪿:
Kyriak Kostandi (Ukrainian, 1852-1921)
Geese, 1913
Oil on canvas, h 45,5, w 35,8
“A decisive step on mastering atmospheric effects was taken by Kiriak Kostandi, representative of the Society of South-Russian Artists founded by Odesa painters in 1890. He abandoned the monochrome colour gamut of the Peredvizhniki in favour of the bright painterly idiom in which the sunlight with its rich colour reflexes became the determinative factor.”
Maria Primachenko (Ukrainian, 1908-1997) Menagerie, 1977 gouache, fluorescent paint, paper, 61.9 x 88.5 cm
#Caturday at @nypl’s current exhibition:
Okhrim Ivanovych Sudomora (1889-1968), Illustrator
Bim-bom dzelen'-bom!, 1949
Niurnberg; Miunkhen:
V-vo "Nashym ditiam".
Ob'iednannia prtsivnykiv literatury dlia ditei i molodi
“With a story based on lyrics from an old Ukrainian folk song, Bim-bom dzelen-bom! was issued in 1949, in the aftermath of World War Il, when all Ukrainian territory was brought under oppressive Soviet rule. The same year, its illustrator, Okhrim Sudomora, was sentenced to 25 years in labor camps for drawing a caricature of Stalin with blood on his hands.
In the book, a cat's house catches fire and his animal friends come to the rescue. It ends with a lesson aimed at young, displaced Ukrainians: ‘Roosters, chickens and chicks, and cats and kittens, together they can save their native home from burning. So you little children, learn how to live in the world, and from every danger, defend your native home!’”
