UKRAINE WILL SURVIVE THRU HER ART

 

Over the past few weeks we have featured some Ukrainian women artists, perhaps not really thinking, or at least praying, that the Ukrainian people would  be in the situation they are in today- fleeing en masse, sitting in bomb shelters and burying their loved ones.

                                     Madonna of Poltava by Daria Hulak-Kulchytsky

One wonders what is happening to all the art- as I am sure much of it is just left behind in the mess. As the sounds of war are now everywhere, there must be moments of silence, when the people think “Ukraine will stand, so will its art.”

 Anna Avetova, the founder of  Tuasho Gallery in Kyiv said:  “Our thousand-year-old culture that was the intersection of a huge number of countries and continents and existed when Russia was not yet in sight has overcome many challenges. Its people, culture, and language were banned, exterminated, and ignored for centuries, but the country proved to be indestructible. We have always survived and will survive today. Whatever happens next, we will live, create, and develop.”