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Ukrainian Art/The Milkmaid

The Milkmaid

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ArtistMykhailo Boychuk

MovementBoychukism (Monumentalism)

Year1923

MediumTempera

LocationNational Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

About the Artist

Mykhailo Boychuk

1882–1937

Founder of Boychukism, a monumental school synthesising Byzantine, Quattrocento and Ukrainian folk art; co-founder/rector of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts. Executed by the NKVD on 13 July 1937; nearly all his monumental works were destroyed.

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Movements

Boychukism (Monumentalism)

1910s–1930s

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.

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