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Ukrainian Art
Ukrainian Visual Art
A personal selection of Ukrainian artists and works we love — landscapes, still lifes, portraits, folk art and more. Not a textbook, not a survey: just paintings worth looking at, gathered in one place.
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1893
Autumn
Petro Nilus
An early atmospheric landscape exemplifying Nilus's lyrical, muted Impressionist treatment of the Ukrainian autumn.
1770
Vladimir and Rogneda
Antin Losenko
Losenko's program piece, one of the first history paintings drawn from the Kyivan Rus past.
1797
Portrait of Maria Lopukhina
Volodymyr Borovikovsky
His most famous portrait, an icon of Sentimentalism, of a young noblewoman against a soft pastoral landscape.
1910
Winter
Hryhorii Svitlytsky
A small early-period winter landscape, consistent with his lyrical landscape work.
1895
The Dnieper
Mykola Murashko
A panoramic view of the Dnieper river.
1896
Ukrainian Landscape
Mykola Murashko
A realist Ukrainian rural landscape.
Art Movements
Periods, styles, and schools that shaped Ukrainian art history
17th–18th century
Cossack Baroque (Ukrainian Baroque Painting)
A national variant of Baroque fusing the Byzantine icon tradition with Western European Baroque realism and ornament: monumental gilded iconostases, parsuna portraiture, and the Zhovkva and Kyivan Cave Monastery workshops.
1908–1920s
Cubo-Futurism
A fusion of Cubist faceting with Futurist dynamism given a distinct Ukrainian inflection in Kyiv by Oleksandra Ekster and Oleksandr Bohomazov, whose 1914 treatise set out its theory.
1910s–1930s
Boychukism (Monumentalism)
A Ukrainian monumental-art school founded by Mykhailo Boychuk fusing Byzantine icon tradition, Italian Quattrocento and Ukrainian folk art into a synthetic 'great style'. Annihilated by Stalinism — its leaders executed in 1937 and nearly all works destroyed.
1910s–1930s
Artists
Ukrainian painters, sculptors, and visual artists
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Ivan Rutkovych
1650–1708
Leading Ukrainian Baroque icon painter and founder of the Zhovkva school; master of luminous colour, famous for the 1697–99 Skvariava Nova iconostasis.
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Yov Kondzelevych
1667–1740
Ukrainian Baroque icon painter and monastic elder; brought heightened realism and landscape to Eastern iconography. Masterwork: the Bohorodchany (Manyava) Iconostasis (1698–1705).
Dmytro Levytsky
1735–1822
A leading portraitist of the 18th century, born in Kyiv and trained by his father, the engraver-priest Hryhorii Levytsky. Famous for his Smolny Institute portrait series, he became one of the most celebrated portrait painters of his era.
About This Collection
This curated collection documents the richness of Ukrainian visual art — from medieval icon painting through the modernist explosion of the early 20th century, the suppressed avant-garde of the Soviet era, and the vibrant contemporary scene that continues to evolve amid Ukraine's struggle for independence and European integration.
Ukrainian art has long been underrepresented in global art history. This project aims to change that by providing accessible, contextualized information about Ukrainian artists, their works, and the movements that shaped them.
