Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur (Ukrainian: Катерина Василівна Білокур; December 7 [O.S. November 24] 1900 – 9 June 1961)[1] was a Ukrainianfolk 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]
^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’.
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