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.

“Only Flowers”: Paraska Khoma

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1991.

The film "Yavoriv Toy" is dedicated to the folk art of wooden toys.

On the video: Yavoriv, ​​Lviv region, spring flowers; making wooden toys, old-timers talk about folk art; wooden Easter eggs, coloring; various wooden toys, horses.

Folk craftsmen Yuliya Pryima and Stepan Lopochak starred in the film.

Reference: Yavoriv Toy is a traditional wooden toy, which is made in Yavoriv and surrounding settlements with the predominant use of aspen and decorated with a characteristic painting "verbivka". The ornament is based on stylized plant motifs with a combination of green, red, blue and yellow colors; manufacturing technology and painting are passed on by masters within the local craft tradition, and the product is included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Ukraine.

Folk Art: Yavoriv Toy

August 21, 2015, Kyiv.

Culture News. A report about the exhibition of Ukrainian avant-garde artists at the "Art Arsenal" from the collection of the wanderer Igor Dychenko. The host is in the studio, the exhibition hall with paintings (Malevich, Bogomazov, Palmov, Kuznetsov, Tishler, Yermilov, Kavsan, Boychuk, Lermani).

Comments: art critic Dmitry Gorbachev; project curator Igor Oksametny; project curator Olga Melnyk; theater artist, set designer Andriy Romanchenko.

Exhibition of masterpieces at the "Art Arsenal"

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1987.

The film "Tapestry Workshop" is dedicated to the art of creating tapestries and the development of Lviv weaving, in particular the creative work of Iryna Vinnytska.

On the video: Lviv, Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts, exhibition of works by Iryna Vinnytska; tapestries from different angles; craftswoman at work, weaving loom; museum exhibition.

Reference: Iryna Vinnytska is a Ukrainian artist of decorative arts, a representative of the Lviv school of artistic textiles, a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1968. She worked in the field of author's tapestry and artistic decoration of fabrics, participated in republican and international exhibitions. The craftswoman's works are kept in leading museums of Ukraine.

"Tapestry Workshop": Iryna Vinnytska

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1988.

The film "Hutsul Ornament of the 19th Century" is dedicated to the Hutsul woodcarving mastery.

Filming was carried out at the Lviv Museum of Ethnography and Crafts, the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Ukrainian SSR (now the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life "Shevchenko Grove").

On the video: examples of Hutsul ornament on wooden products, comments from researchers. Behind the scenes, the sound of the drymba, cymbals, and a trio ensemble of musicians.

Art historians and ethnologists Lyudmila Lysenko, Inna Shcherbak, and Vasyl Skurativsky tell the story.


Hutsul Ornament: Woodworking Mastery

Lviv, 1999. Lviv Television, program “Tele-ART-Scene.”

The program is dedicated to an exhibition of works by photographer Oleksiy Iutin. The exhibition is presented at the Dzyga Art Gallery. Journalist Lyubov Yanas talks to Oleksiy Iutin, theater artist Valery Bortyakov, and graphic artist Vladimir Buglakov about the art of photography, improvisation in work, and aesthetic associations.

In the video: the Dzyga Gallery, exhibition works, Oleksiy Iutin with a camera, photographing a violinist, a girl in a Lviv courtyard, photo portraits of actor Bohdan Stupka and poet Yevhen Yevtushenko.

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Photo by Alexei Iutin

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1983.

Video essay "Ukrainian Colors". Patterns of Ukrainian embroidery, painting on porcelain and ceramics, paintings by folk artists Maria Pryimachenko, Kateryna Bilokur and Oleksandr Sayenko, made in the Ukrainian folk tradition.

Ukrainian colors

Volyn Television. The program "And in the colors of memory will respond..." from October 11, 2003 is dedicated to the Ukrainian artist-painter Karel Jakubek.

On the video: a walk with the artist; an interview, talks about his family, the beginning of his creative path, studies in Hungary and the influence of Adalbert Erdel; photos from the personal archive of the Jakubek family; a story about the creative method; Karel Jakubek at work; art exhibition.

Author — Lyudmila Chernetsova.

Reference: Karel Jakubek is a Ukrainian painter, one of the representatives of the Baia-Mara (Baiamar) school of painting, which was formed in the Central European artistic space. His studies at the Free Academy of Arts in Baia Mare, as well as his studies in the circle of Josip Bokshai and Adalbert Erdeli, determined his orientation towards plein air painting, tonal culture and restrained colorism. Since 1964, he worked in Lutsk, where he played a leading role in the formation of the professional artistic environment of Volyn, heading the local section of the Union of Artists and working as the city's chief artist; he worked mainly in the genres of landscape, portrait and still life in the technique of oil painting.

The work of Karl Jakubek

2012, Ternopil Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program from the series "They glorified our land" is dedicated to the Ukrainian graphic artist Yevhen Udin.

In the video: screensavers, interview with the artist, the artist's works, Yevhen Udin teaches students.

Author: Liliya Muzya.

Graphic artist Yevgeny Udin

Transcarpathian Television. The September 20, 2002 episode of the program "The Secret of Spiritualization" is dedicated to the artist, teacher of the Irshava Children's School of Arts Vasyl Pynzenyk.

On the video: Transcarpathia, Irshava community; children drawing in nature, artistic searches; an interview with Vasyl Pynzenyk, in which he talks about the difficult life of his parents, the path to art, the formation of his own style; paintings by Vasyl Pynzenyk.

Host — Vira Kochubey.

Reference: Vasyl Pynzenyk is a Ukrainian artist and teacher, teacher of the Irshava Children's School of Arts, works in the field of fine and sacred art. He takes an active part in the preservation and popularization of the artistic heritage of the famous Transcarpathian artist Adalbert Erdeli, in particular in initiatives to honor his memory in Transcarpathia.