Presentation : "Catherine Bilokur

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Dovhopolyuk Roman

She painted not the flowers but their souls. She was born in Ukrainian village in the time of USSR. The matter was village citizens were disadvantaged in USSR. That's why the real genius has never got an opportunity to get nor education neither good conditions to paint. Catherine often drew in the frozen room without any food for long time. Her works are presented now in the Museum of Folk Art in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Portrait of Catherine Bilokur

Painting called «Hut in Bogdanovka»

Also Catherine painted many pictures about flowers.

The story of artist Catherine Bilokur is an amazing one. If circumstances were different, she might be revered as one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. But because she was born to poverty in a remote and obscure village in the Ukraine, relatively few people knew of Bilokur’s work in her lifetime. Despite this, she was eventually recognized as one of the greatest artists ever to emerge from the Ukraine.

One of the portraits of Catherine Bilokur

She received no formal education and her daily life was one of dreary, hard physical labor and household chores. But her desire to paint was extreme. So eager was she to pursue her art that she fashioned her own paintbrushes and formulated her own paints from beet juice, berries, onions, viburnum, herbs and whatever she could find. She was often at labor all day and painted during the night until she could no longer stay awake.

Materials for the manufacture of paints

The majority of her creations feature extremely vivid, vibrant and colorful floral scenes displaying lush collections of flowers and fruits in natural settings. She tried to gain entrance to art school in the 1920, but since she had no proof or certificate of having completed “seven-year-school,” so she had no chance. She also had little opportunity to see and study the work of other artists.

Some of her works eventually found their way to Europe, where it is said that none other than Pablo Picasso not only viewed her work, but became entranced, staring at her paintings for hours, as if in a reverie. Picasso suggested that if her works were widely known, Bilokur would be the talk of the world.

One of these works

In 1956 Catherine Bilokur was named the “People’s Artist of Ukraine,” an incredibly high honor. He image was also issued on a Ukrainian coin. She died in 1961. It is likely her magnificent work will live on for centuries to come and be considered among the most sublime masterpieces of the world.

Other masterpiece works.

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