Samchykivsky painting art campaign launched in Ukraine
A cultural and art
campaign ‘Samchykivsky Painting is a new pearl of Podilia is conducted in Kyiv
Hetman Museum from September, 28 until October, 11.
Samchykivsky Painting
is a folk decorative painting to apply on walls, furniture, dishware in
South-Eastern Volyn region.
In 60’s of XX century
a group of craftsmen who revived a folk decorative painting started working in
Samchyky village (Khmelnytskyi Oblast).
OleksandrPazhymskiy
replicated folk paintings, studied coloristic, selected paints, and later
enriched traditional wall painting with genre drawings: Cossacks, beautiful
girls, magic flowers, birds and life scenes. The paintings absorbed new sense
and gave the birth to a new style of art, Samchykivsky painting.
The headline of the
painting is plants (poppies, Adonis, dogbane, sunflowers, spikelets, snowball
tree, bell flowers). Some elements of animal world (horses, pigeons, geese and
other birds) and humans (Cossacks and young girls) can be also seen in the
paintings.
Very often artists
use symbolically-rendered elements (like in Pysanka) – sheep horns, chicken
toes, curls, crosses, starts, first, stripes.
The most popular and
favourite motif is ‘vason’, a symbol of world tree.
On September 28, at
campaign inauguration Victor Rakovksiy gave a free open workshop on
Samchykivsky painting.
The campaign last
until October, 30 and visit Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Zhytomyr.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/samchykivsky_painting_is_being_presented_in_kyiv.html
Czech railway operating company enters Ukraine
Czech railway
operating company LEO Express started tickets pre-sale for buses routing
Mukacheve-Uzhhorod-Kosice with further transferring to trains heading to
Prague.
The buses will run
every day from October 16, 2015. This way Czech railway operating company will
deliver Ukrainian passengers to the company’s trains.
The ticket price for
combined trip Mukacheve-Prague starts from €21. Free Wi-Fi, newspapers,
refreshments and snacks are included.
Tickets can be bought
at www.leoexpress.com.ua or at Mukacheve or Uzhhorod bus stations.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/czech_railway_operating_company_enters_ukraine.html
‘The Battle for Ukraine’ documentary gets News & Documentary Emmy
Awards in USA
The film ‘The Battle
for Ukraine’ by Frontline and PBS Channel won News & Documentary Emmy
Awards for ‘Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News’.James Johns shot the film
in February-April 2014.
The National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) presents the award in recognition of
excellence in American national news and documentary programming in 40
categories. The first award was given in 1980.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/the_battle_for_ukraine_awarded_emmy_in_usa.html
Ukrainians to learn German experience in prosthesis
Under the auspices of
STALMED, official distributor of Touch Bionics in Ukraine, several Ukrainian
specialists and prosthetist will go to Germany to get experience at folding
bionic hands prosthesis.
‘Until now Ukraine
had problems with functional bioelectric hand prosthesis production that’s why
our soldiers had to get their prosthesis abroad. Our organization has always affirmed
that it is very necessary to launch domestic prosthesis production as Ukrainian
analogues will be a way cheaper and we will get a chance to give maintenance to
this prosthesis for our soldiers’, Oleksiy Krasnoshchok, the head of volunteer
project pidmoga.info, mentioned.
The volunteer says
that the cost of prosthesis installation abroad and rehabilitation is about
1,096,000 Hr. excluding post warranty service (about 150 living wages).
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/ukrainians_to_learn_german_experience_in_prothesis.html
‘Passion For Freedom’ sculpture rewarded at London Festival
A sculpture ‘Passion
For Freedom’ by Dmytro Iv took second place at VII International Festival of
Contemporary Art ‘Passion For Freedom’ held in Mall Galleries, London, on
September, 21-26. The festival was dedicated to the human rights defense and
freedom of expression through art.
The sculpture is
represented by a woman made of 4000 steel chains; it seems that a woman flies
into the air challenging the gravity.
Ukrainians also
secured third place for the documentary ‘Stronger than
Arms’ by Babylon13.
This is the first
participation of Ukraine in this festival.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/passion_for_freedom_sculpture_rewared_at_london_festival.html
