Yaroslava Muzyka

Yaroslava Muzyka, née Stefanovych (Ukrainian: Ярослава Львівна Музика; 10 January 1894 – 23 November 1973) was a Ukrainian painter, restorer, and public figure. She was a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1940) and co-founder and chairman (1931) of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists in Lviv. In 1934, she co-organized the Ukrainian Women's Congress in Stanyslaviv.

Biography She was born in 1894 in the Zaliztsi, now in the Ternopil Raion of the Ternopil Oblast, in the family of a local judge's adviser. Her great-grandfather was Hryhorii Savchynskyi. As a teenager, she moved to Lviv. In 1917–1919 she studied at the Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski Art Studio in Lviv. In 1920–1923, she studied at the Faculty of Plastics of the Free Academy of Arts in Lviv. The artist was attracted to the world of folklore images, household items, and folk costumes. In 1935, he studied at the Free Academy in Paris. Upon returning home, she became a part of the artistic life of Lviv. She became a member of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists, which organized numerous exhibitions and published the magazine "Mystetstvo" until 1939. In addition to participating in public life, the artist worked fruitfully in the field of graphics, painted portraits of her contemporaries, created mosaic compositions, and passionately collected masterpieces of Ukrainian folk art. She worked in the restoration workshop of the National Museum in Lviv. Co-founder and chairman (1931) of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists in Lviv; participated in all its exhibitions. In 1934, she co-organized the Ukrainian Women's Congress in Stanyslaviv (now…Citește mai mult

Creative heritage She worked in various types and genres of fine and decorative and applied arts: painting (iconography, portrait, landscape, still life), mosaics, painting on glass, easel and illustrative graphics (linocuts, etchings), bookplates, enamel, batik, leather stamping, inlay, carpet weaving, applications – more than 2000 works. She bequeathed her works, archive, library, and collection to the Lviv Art Gallery.

Commemorating In 1994, a bronze plaque with a high relief image was installed on the facade of the house at 26 Vynnychenko Street in Lviv, where Yaroslava Muzyka lived from 1909 to 1973. Sculptor Emmanuel Mysko, architect Vasyl Kamenshchyk. In 2000, in order to preserve, revive and further develop the artistic traditions of the Ternopil Oblast, to encourage amateur artists to work fruitfully for the development of Ukrainian national art, the Yaroslava Muzyka Prize was founded in Ternopil.

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