May 17, 2002, Kyiv.

On the video: National Art Museum of Ukraine, exhibition of paintings; art critic Dmitry Gorbachev talks about Kazimir Malevich and avant-garde artists; exhibition of paintings by avant-garde artists, various plans.

Commented by Ukrainian art critic Dmitry Gorbachev.

Reference: The Ukrainian avant-garde is an artistic movement of the 1910s–1930s that combined European modernism, cubo-futurism, constructivism, suprematism, and neo-primitivism with the traditions of Ukrainian folk art. Its key representatives include: Kazimir Malevich, Oleksandr Arkhipenko, Oleksandra Ekster, Oleksandr Bogomazov, David Burliuk, Vasyl Yermylov, Vadim Meller and Anatol Petrytsky.

What is the Ukrainian avant-garde?

2000, National Television Company of Ukraine. Release of the program "Not everything is so bad in our house...". Topic - "Culture is the hoop of the nation". Conversations about the spirit, will, character, aspirations of the Ukrainian people. Part 1. Host - Lyudmila Lysenko.

On the video: screensavers, paintings, icons, historical chronicle, guests in the studio - artist Feodosii Humenyuk and academician Mykola Storozhenko, People's Artists of Ukraine Bohodar Kotorovych and Yevheniya Basalayeva playing "Melody" by Myroslav Skoryk, student comments, Feodosii Humenyuk's workshop.

"Culture is the hoop of the nation." Part 1

The plot from May 31, 2017 is dedicated to the history and attempts to obtain permission for the restoration of the mosaic panel "Wind" in Kyiv.

In the video: mosaic panel, smalt close-up, an art historian shows the names of the authors, talks about the history of the creation of the mosaic; comments from a representative of the Department of Culture on the status of the mosaic as a monument of monumental art architecture, about the violation of the law by the restaurant owners.

Comments: art historian Lyudmila Ogneva; marketing manager of the Mill Hub restaurant Viktoria Davydenko; member of the inspection for the protection of cultural heritage of the Department of Culture of the Kyiv City State Administration Andriy Pechinkin; art historian Yevgenia Molyar.

The plot was written by: Ivan Ilnytskyi, Roman Mikheev.

Reference: The "Wind" panel is an abstract mosaic composition created in 1967 by Alla Horska, Viktor Zaretsky and Boris Plaksiy for the "Vitryak" restaurant in Kyiv, which is the only surviving monumental work by Alla Horska in the urban space of the capital. In 2016, after the threat of damage to the panel, the object was included in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine, but later partial damage and violations of the conditions of its protection were recorded.

Mosaic "Wind" by Alla Horska

2009, National Television Company of Ukraine. The documentary film "The Mystery of Mary" is dedicated to the People's Artist of Ukraine Maria Prymachenko and her work.

On the video: the village of Bolotnya in the Kyiv region, a story about the theft of a hundred works of the artist from the house of her son Fedir Prymachenko, a newsreel with the artist, paintings, the Ivankiv School of Arts named after Maria Prymachenko, the first folk art exhibition in 1936, an experimental workshop at the Kyiv Museum of Ukrainian Art on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris, classical music performed by the "Trio Rozumovsky", archival photographs, Maria Prymachenko being awarded the Taras Shevchenko State Prize in 1966.

Comments: Lidia Zhovtenko; students of the Ivankiv School of Arts named after Maria Prymachenko Anna Tertychna and Anastasia Radchenko; art historians Olga Govdya and Lyudmila Bilous; vice-president of the Maria Pryimachenko Charitable Foundation Olga Levchenko; poet Ivan Drach.

The Mystery of Maria Pryimachenko

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1992.

The TV film "Who Sows the Soul" is dedicated to the monologue of the artist Olena Tyschak. It tells about her path to God, faith and spirituality of her artistic style, demonstrates the creative process.

"Who Sows the Soul": God and Art

Transcarpathian Television, 1995. The program "Nadiya" is dedicated to the paintings of Uzhhorod artist Nadiya Ponomarenko.

On the video: workshop, artist at work, various works of art by Nadiya Ponomarenko; art history information.

The program features poetry by Kostya Moskalets.

Information: Nadiya Ponomarenko is a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, illustrator and book designer, Honored Artist of Ukraine. She works in the fields of easel graphics and painting, known for bookplates, book graphics and works with sacred themes.

Nadiya Ponomarenko's Work

Ternopil Television, 2012. The episode of the program "Candid Dialogues" is dedicated to an interview with graphic artist Yaroslav Omelyan.

In the video: biography of Yaroslav Omelyan, interview with the artist, talks about his home, family, experience of repression.

Comments: Honored Artist of Ukraine, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Literary Ternopil" Bohdan Melnychuk; journalist of the newspaper "Svoboda" Bohdan Novosyadly.

Host — Larysa Mykhailivska.

Reference: Yaroslav Omelyan is a Ukrainian graphic artist, Honored Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. He worked in the fields of easel and applied graphics, watercolors and posters, best known as the author of bookplates, which ensured his recognition as one of the leading Ukrainian masters of this genre.

Graphic artist Yaroslav Omelyan

Volyn Television, 1996. The program "Art Studio Z" is dedicated to the abstract artist Kostyantyn Borysiuk.

On the video an interview with the artist, a survey, Kostyantyn Borysiuk's artworks, a review of an antique store.

Host — Zoya Navrotska.

Reference: Kostyantyn Borysiuk is a Ukrainian painter and sculptor, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, a representative of contemporary Ukrainian art. He worked in the field of easel painting, from the 1980s he turned to abstract painting, and later combined objectlessness with figurative elements, focusing on the expression of the inner world of man.

Artist Kostyantyn Borysiuk

1999, National Television Company of Ukraine. Broadcast of the programme ‘School Screen’. Topic: ‘Taras Shevchenko — Artist’. 

In the video: opening credits, the presenter talks about Shevchenko's artistic life, a reconstruction of Taras Shevchenko's image, an actor recites the writer's works, Shevchenko's paintings and etchings: self-portrait, ‘Gypsy Fortune Teller’, “Kateryna”, graphic works from the series ‘Picturesque Ukraine’, illustrations, engravings, drawings from 1845-1847, paintings created during his exile in Kazakhstan.

Taras Shevchenko — artist

1977, Lviv Television. The film “The Artist and Glass” about glassblowing art and the glassblowers of the Lviv Ceramic and Sculpture Factory. Language: Russian.

The video features: opening credits, halls of the Ethnographic Museum in Lviv, production workshops, glassblowers at work, finished products, glassblowing furnaces, and distinguished master of folk art Mechislav Pavlovsky.

Author: Vasyl Hlynchak.

The film "The Artist and the Glass", 1977

1987, Lviv Television. Program “Unforgettable.” Video without sound.

The video shows the apartment-museum of Ukrainian graphic artist Leopold Levytsky. The artist's personal belongings, exhibits, a guest book, photographs, engravings, awards, a poster for the “Exhibition of Works by Leopold Levytsky, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR,” a sculpture, a view from the window, and a memorial plaque.

Reference: Leopold Levytsky was a Ukrainian graphic artist and painter, one of the representatives of the Lviv art school of the 20th century. He worked in woodcut, linocut, and etching techniques, created illustrations for literary works, as well as easel graphics. His work combined expressive form with social themes and distinctive modernist stylistics.

Leopold Levytskyi's apartment-museum in Lviv

Lviv Television, 1976. Film “Only Flowers” about artist Paraska Khoma. 

In the video: Paraska Khoma painting, her works, the artist in a flower garden; a collective farm field, a wedding in the village of Chernyatin, a school class, Paraska Khoma teaching children to paint; the artist at an exhibition of her works among people. In an interview, Paraska Khoma tells children about her drawings, flowers, and birds, which she depicts.

Reference: Paraska Khoma is a Ukrainian artist, Honored Master of Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. She is a master of decorative painting, known for her floral and plant compositions; her works are kept in museums in Ukraine and abroad. She is a laureate of the Kateryna Bilokur and Yaroslav Lukavetsky awards.