Forgotten Galicia - Art Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/culture/art/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:26:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Forgotten Galicia - Art Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/culture/art/ 32 32 How to Teach a Bear to Play the Flute: The Fairy-Tale World of Oleksa Bakhmatiuk https://forgottengalicia.com/how-to-teach-a-bear-to-play-the-flute-the-fairy-tale-world-of-oleksa-bakhmatiuk/ https://forgottengalicia.com/how-to-teach-a-bear-to-play-the-flute-the-fairy-tale-world-of-oleksa-bakhmatiuk/#respond Sat, 27 Nov 2021 14:16:22 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=49232 By Oleksandr Simchuk for Amnesia Master tilemaker Oleksa Bakhmatiuk (1820-1882) is the most famous representative of the Kosiv school of ceramics and perhaps the most successful Ukrainian artist of the nineteenth century. A lion playing with a wheel, a bear on the flute warming up a violinist, street artists dancing […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/how-to-teach-a-bear-to-play-the-flute-the-fairy-tale-world-of-oleksa-bakhmatiuk/feed/ 0 The Casino de Paris: A Separate Multicultural Galician World https://forgottengalicia.com/the-casino-de-paris-a-separate-multicultural-galician-world/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-casino-de-paris-a-separate-multicultural-galician-world/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:47:34 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10837 Below is a translation of Daryna and Volodymyr Olshansky’s “The History of One Theater,” published Feb. 2, 2021, on Zbruc “In the center on the left side of Lesia Kurbasa Street in Lviv there is a building that you cannot pass by without noticing — the eye will first linger […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-casino-de-paris-a-separate-multicultural-galician-world/feed/ 1 The Hutsuls as Depicted by Teodor Axentowicz https://forgottengalicia.com/the-hutsuls-as-depicted-by-teodor-axentowicz/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-hutsuls-as-depicted-by-teodor-axentowicz/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:13:19 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4664 Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938), a renowned Polish-Armenian painter and the first elected rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, was born in Braşov, Hungary (now Romania). His father’s family had Armenian roots and owned a small property in Ceniów, near Brody. Axentowicz grew up in Lwów (Lviv) and after […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-hutsuls-as-depicted-by-teodor-axentowicz/feed/ 0 The Eastern Fair in Lviv: Art Deco Posters https://forgottengalicia.com/the-eastern-fair-in-lviv-art-deco-posters/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-eastern-fair-in-lviv-art-deco-posters/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:57:47 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=3335 The Eastern Fair The Eastern Fair (Targi Wschodnie in Polish) was a major trade fair in interwar Poland. It was established in 1921 in Lwów (today Lviv), after the end of the Polish-Soviet War, which redrew the Polish-Soviet border and incorporated Galicia into the Second Polish Republic. The aim of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-eastern-fair-in-lviv-art-deco-posters/feed/ 2 1980s Soviet Posters for Cultural Events https://forgottengalicia.com/1980s-soviet-posters-for-cultural-events/ https://forgottengalicia.com/1980s-soviet-posters-for-cultural-events/#respond Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:52:44 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1519 My parents in Chicago have some neat posters from the late Soviet period announcing various artistic and cultural events in Kyiv. Poster from 1987 Performance of Kupala rituals at the Folk Architecture Museum in Kyiv Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Міністерство культури української […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/1980s-soviet-posters-for-cultural-events/feed/ 0 Olena Kulchytska: Combining Galician Secession and Ukrainian Folk Art https://forgottengalicia.com/olena-kulchytska-combining-galician-secession-ukrainian-folk-art/ https://forgottengalicia.com/olena-kulchytska-combining-galician-secession-ukrainian-folk-art/#respond Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:57:17 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1127 Olena Kulchytska was a Galician Modernist, legendary Lvivian, famous artist, and skilled teacher. She is my favorite Ukrainian artist; in particular, I like how she combines Secession and Ukrainian folk art. Furthermore, she lived about 5 minutes away from where I live in Lviv, and in the interwar period in […]

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