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.

“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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