Exhibition of paintings "Cossack Atlantis" by Mykolaiv artist Olha Artym began its work in the Central City Library named after M.L. Kropyvnytskyi. The exhibition consists of 15 paintings.
These shots shocked the whole world. Last June, Russian troops blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. The great water swept away everything on its way - residential buildings, office premises, animals and people. The tragedy divided the life of Kherson Region and parts of Mykolaiv Region into before and after.
A year after the disaster, ecologists carefully talk about the signs of the revival of nature in the territory where in the 16th and 17th centuries part of the Zaporizhzhian Sich stretched out - the legendary Cossack Great Meadow, which for 70 years was flooded by the waters of the Kakhovka Reservoir.
The Mykolaiv artist Olha Artym, whose painting exhibition "Cossack Atlantis" was opened in the Central City Library M.L. Kropyvnytskyi, could not stand aside from the tragedy.
The exhibition consists of 15 paintings. The author combined the works of different years into a single meaningful and visual whole. In the center is the triptych "Cossack Atlantis" as a demonstration of the Kahovka tragedy.
"I painted them very hard. Because in general, I write works quickly and masterfully, one might say. And then I thought about how to do it. What was on my mind. Because what I knew was not very useful. I had to study a bit of history, delve into what I paint. So that the characters were similar to the truth," shares Olha Artym.
A story picture requires the artist to mobilize all his abilities and skills. In the process of painting, the artist also learns a lot of new things. From the beginning, the author of the exhibition had a lot of compositional approaches, solving images. During the year, the creative search continued.
"By nature, Olha Artym is an extremely positive person. She loves life. She loves the colors of life. This nature, these flowers, which the Lord gives. She loves shades of color, rainbow, multi-colored things. She loves it. But despite the fact that she took a tragic subject, we see this positivity in her works. We see a tragedy that break the shackles and awakens the spirit," says Dmytro Artym, head of the Mykolaiv regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
The works by Olha Artym in 2024 are exhibited for the first time. Pictures painted by the artist earlier acquired a new meaning in the context of the exhibition.
"Cossack Atlantis" by Olha Artym is a prayer for the dead and a hymn to the indomitability of the Ukrainian spirit.
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