Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2022

  • Oleg Denisenko (revisited)

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    Oleg Denisenko is a Ukrainian printmaker, painter, calligrapher and sculptor who I first featured in 2007, and again in 2012. His wonderfully eccentric subjects center on figures with elaborate costumes, intricately detailed an accompanied by a range of curious objects. He plays with proportion and scale and varying degrees of exaggeration. Denisenko appears to vary…

  • Ivan Pokhitonov (revisited)

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    Ivan Pokhitonov is a Ukrainian painter I featured on Lines and Colors in 2019. Many of his strikingly beautiful landscapes and occasional portraits are quite a bit smaller than you might assume from the images. For more information, images and links to sources of images, see my previous post on Ivan Pokhitonov.

  • Some Ukrainian artists

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    I’ve been writing Lines and Colors for more then 15 years. I found with a recent search of my own posts that in that time, I’ve featured a number of wonderful Ukrainian artists. I’ve sometimes described these artists as “Russian/Ukrainian” artists. Ukrainian artists are often described this way, partly because Ukraine was for a long…