Kateryna Bilokur

Kateryna Bilokur
Катерина Бiлокур
BornDecember 7 [O.S. November 24] 1900
Died9 June 1961(1961-06-09) (aged 60)
NationalityUkrainian
AwardsPeople's Artist of Ukraine

Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur (Ukrainian: Катерина Василівна Білокур; December 7 [O.S. November 24] 1900 – 9 June 1961)[1] was a Ukrainian folk artist, painter and poet born in the Poltava Governorate. Bilokur 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,[2]. It was Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur watercolor flowers that have brought her most recognitionwith critics noting, "She sees the souls of flowers."[3]

Bilokur was named People's Artist of Ukrainein 1951.[4] Numerous sources report a popular legend that Pablo Picasso saw Bilokur's work exhibited in Paris and commented, "If we had an artist of this level, we would make the whole world talk about her."[5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Kateryna Bilokur: Biographical sketch – Ukrainian Art Library". en.uartlib.org. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  2. ^ Hryshchenko, O. V. (2019). "ART-TECHNOLOGY OF KATERYNA BILOKUR: WRITING TO REMEMBER (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE NOVEL V. YAVORIVSKY "SELF-PORTRAIT FROM IMAGINATION")". Lviv Philological Journal. 5: 42–47. doi:10.32447/2663-340x-2019-5-7. ISSN 2663-340X.
  3. ^ Штогрін, Ірина (11 June 2021). "«Була, щоб залишитися у квітах»: до дня пам'яті Катерини Білокур". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  4. ^ Чубіна, Т. Д., & Федоренко, Я. А. (2023). Features of the formation and possibilities of self-realimation of the creative personality in the conditions of the rural location of the period of the Khrushshov ‘thaw’.
  5. ^ "Буйна". Club-tourist. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  6. ^ Штогрін, Ірина (11 June 2021). "«Була, щоб залишитися у квітах»: до дня пам'яті Катерини Білокур". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  7. ^ "All Books Reviewed by the Palimpsest Editorial Collective". Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. 5 (1): 89–90. 2016. doi:10.1353/pal.2016.0005. ISSN 2165-1612.

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