Katerîna Bilokur

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Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur (Ukrainian: Катерина Василівна Білокур; December 7 [O.S. November 24] 1900 – 9 June 1961) was a Ukrainian folk artist, painter and poet born in the Poltava Governorate. After an unpromising start, her works became known in the late 1930s and 1940s for their interest in nature. Her paintings have become famous for depictions of peasant life among Ukrainian women,. Above all it was Bilokur's flowers done in oil on canvas which brought her general recognition, with critics noting, "[s]he sees the souls of flowers." Bilokur was named People's Artist of Ukraine in 1951. Numerous sources report a popular legend that Pablo Picasso saw Bilokur's work exhibited in Paris and commented, "[i]f we had an artist of this level, we would make the whole world talk about her."

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Biography She was born on 24 November (7 December), 1900 in the village Bohdanivka. At the age of 6 or 7, Bilokur learned to read. Her family decided not to send her to school, to save money on shoes and clothes. She started drawing from a young age, though her parents frowned upon this hobby and wouldn't permit her do it. Bilokur continued drawing secretly, using old rags and coal. "I stole a piece of white canvas from my mother and took a piece of coal... I shall draw something on one side of the rag, then I enjoy what I created, then I draw something on the other side... And this one time... I didn't draw something I saw, but rather some birds I imagined... My soul felt so happy because of what I could make up! I stared at my drawing, and laughed like crazy... That's when my parents busted me. They tore up my drawing and threw it in the oven... "What are you crazy? What are you doing? What would happen if other people saw you doing this? What devil will agree to marry you after this!.." But wherever I go, whatever I do - I…Citește mai mult

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In the spring of 1940, Bilokur heard on the radio a song called "Or was I not the viburnum on the meadow", performed by Oksana Petrusenko. The song impressed Bilokur so much that she wrote a letter to the singer, enclosing a drawing of a viburnum on a piece of canvas. Much impressed by the drawing the singer, after consulting with her friends Vasyl Kasiyan and Pavlo Tychina, contacted the Folk Art Center. Soon, an order was received in Poltava - to go to the village of Bohdanivka, find Bilokur, and inquire about her works. Volodymyr Khitko, then head of the artistic and methodological council of the regional House of Folk Art, came to visit Bohdanivka. He showed several paintings by Kateryna Bilokur in Poltava to the artist Matvey Dontsov. In 1940 an exhibition of 11 paintings by Bilokur opened in the House of Folk Art in Poltava . The exhibition was a huge success and the artist was awarded with a trip to Moscow. Accompanied by Volodymyr Khitko, she visited the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum. Bilokur was quickly recognized as a folk artist who Communist Party leaders felt captures "socialist realism" but Bilokur's work is noted for…Citește mai mult

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In 1948, her father Vasily Bilokur died. Katheryna had lived with her sick mother for a while, and later, her brother Grigory with his wife and five children moved in with them. In the spring of 1961, her mother suffered from severe pain in the abdomen and legs. Home remedies did not help, and village pharmacy did not have the necessary medicines. In early June 1961, her 94-year-old mother died. In the same year, Bilokur was taken to the Yagotynsky regional hospital. On 10 June, she underwent an operation that did not succeed, and on the same day, Bilokur died. She was buried in her native village of Bogdanivka. The author of the tombstone is a sculptor called Ivan Gonchar.

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Paintings Most of Kateryna Bilokur's paintings were of flowers. She would often combine spring and autumn elements in her paintings, and such a picture was drawn from spring to autumn. For example, six dahlias in the painting "The collective farm field" were painted over three weeks. She would not paint. cut flowers noting, "Flowers, like people, are alive, have a soul! And the torn flower is no longer a flower,". In addition to flowers, Bilokur painted landscapes and portraits. Several times she would try depicting a story of a stork bringing a child, but abandoned this idea due to confusion from others. In the 1950s, Bilokur made her first attempts at watercolor painting. Her best works of that time - "The Village of Bohdanivka in September", "Beyond the Village" (1956), "Early Spring" (1958), "Autumn" (1960) - are characterized by extraordinary emotional expressiveness. In the last years of her life, marked by a serious illness, Bilokur created a number of notable canvases: "Daisies" (1958), "Peonies" (1958), "Bohdaniv Apples" (1959), "Bundle of Flowers" (1960) and others. She did not work often with watercolor and grey pencil because she was more attracted to oil paints: "I made brushes myself - I took hairs…Citește mai mult

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Tribute On 7 December 2020, Google celebrated her 120th birthday with a Google Doodle. In November 2024, a crater on the planet Mercury was named in her honor.

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In English Kateryna Bilokur - 54 artworks - painting - her paintings on WikiArt Ukraine gateway Katerina Bilokur on Ukrkolo.com

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In Ukrainian Картинна галерея Катерини Білокур Дарина Горова Минуло 105 років від дня народження Катерини Білокур. «Україна Молода», № 234, 2005 Сто видатних імен в Україні