Oksana Pavlenko (1895-1991) was a Ukrainian artist in a field of monumental and easel painting, artistic ceramics, drawing. She perfectly mastered fresco techniques, created female portraits, monumental paintings, as well as Ukrainian icons. Representative of the Boychukism movement (a cultural and artistic phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian art between the 1910s and 1930s, distinguished by its artistic monumental-synthetic style. It was an original school of Ukrainian art, formed by a synthesis of Ukrainian folk art and the church art of Byzantium, Proto-Renaissance and Ukraine. The name comes from the name of the founder of the movement: Mykhailo Boychuk).
Works of THE ARTIST
Blind grandma, 1918
Reaper Woman, 1920
Street Merchant, earliest 1920s
Untitled [Woman with Baskets], 1919-1920
For the Commune!, 1920
Weaver Woman, 1920s
Untitled [Woman with a Hoe], 1920-1922
Untitled [Two Women], 1922-1925
Untitled [Glory to October!], 1925
Untitled [Sketch of Man Reading], 1928
Untitled [Women’s Bath], 1929-1931
Untitled [Woman with a Bread]
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Untitled, early XX century
To the Ukrainian Youth Who are Fighting for Peace, 1976