Ukraińskie pejzaże pamięci. Malarstwo Anatolija Łymarewa i Anatolija Krywołapa

Abstrakt

The article examines the landscape paintings of Anatolii Lymarev (1929–1985) and Anatolii Kryvolap (1946), two artists whose work spans the second half of the 20th century and – in Kryvolap’s case – the 21st century. The former is a representative of post-war Ukrainian nonconformist art (the ‘Thaw’ and ‘post-Thaw’ periods), while the latter began his active career during the political transformation and continued to develop it well into independence. Today, Kryvolap is a highly regarded artist in Ukraine and beyond, while Lymarev remains almost completely forgotten. Both are exceptionally original artists, each creating their own distinctive style, in which the use of intense, contrasting colour plays a key role. At the same time, both remain deeply immersed in modernist aesthetics and the tradition of the Ukrainian landscape and genre painting of the late 19th century.