Painters & sculptors

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  • Photograph of Kazimir Malevich, c. 1925

    1879–1935

    Kazimir Malevich

    Painter, founder of Suprematism

    A painter and art theorist born in Kyiv to a family of Polish origin. One of the founders of abstract art, the author of Black Square (1915) and the founder of Suprematism.

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  • Photograph of Alexander Archipenko

    1887–1964

    Alexander Archipenko

    Innovator of modern sculpture

    Kyiv-born sculptor and one of the founders of Cubist sculpture. He made the void and the hole part of the form, and this device influenced modern sculpture of the 20th century.

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  • Photograph of Kateryna Bilokur, 1954

    1900–1961

    Kateryna Bilokur

    Master of folk painting

    A self-taught painter from a Ukrainian village and a master of decorative flower painting. With no art training she created her own style, and her work was shown at an international exhibition in Paris.

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  • Photograph of Ivan Marchuk at the opening of his solo exhibition in Rome, 2025

    b. 1936

    Ivan Marchuk

    Painter, creator of “plontanism”

    A painter, graphic artist and sculptor whose work the Soviet authorities refused to recognize because it did not conform to socialist realism. He created his own technique of painting with fine interwoven lines, “plontanism”. A Shevchenko Prize laureate and People’s Artist of Ukraine.

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