Interviews

The one who revives and preserves ancient life of Hutsuls in digital formats
May 3, 2011 16:12 7
It is lives of people at the Hutsul territories in the old times captured in more than a thousand photographs – so many of them are collected during private expeditions by Volodymyr Kitselyuk, an ordinary enthusiast from Hutsul region, a doctor by profession and an ethnographer by vocation. Volodymyr has posted the photographs he has found in the Internet in the electronic formats.
Ivan Honchar: We have a Ukrainian refrigerator of our own kind… made of clay
December 3, 2010 16:31 7
"Once people used to carry water in "ban’kas" of this kind. A ban’ka was covered by a husked corn ear. People used to dig a small hole in the earth and put it inside covering it with soil: the water in such ban’kas stayed cold for the entire day. Our ban’ka is also called "a Ukrainian refrigerator".
Andriy Pushkaryov: Vytynanka needs advertising yet
June 24, 2010 21:15 12
Well-known in Ukraine and beyond its boundaries graphical artist, creator of vytynankas and pysankar Andriy Pushkaryov is discussing the level of the vytynanka development in Ukraine and the peculiarities of this art.
Vira Man’ko: I dream about a “digitized” pysanka collection
June 23, 2010 16:30 1
"Ancient patterns require to be photographed from several sides because a pysanka is a very fragile thing and can be broken any second. But then it will always be possible to reproduce a pysanka in accordance with the photographs for it to have a new life..."
Valentyna Panko: People in the cities take more interest in “Petrykivka”
June 23, 2010 15:55 2
"We are often invited to decorate restaurants in this style. Some people even ask us to decorate their apartments with “Petrykivka”. I hope that the tendency will return back to Petrykivka village itself..."
Serhiy Denysenko: Trypillya is Ukraine, I feel it
June 23, 2010 15:09 2
"Oriental ornaments do not work on me, however beautiful they are. They do not touch me and my soul does not fall or live for them. And when I take a look at a Trypillya art (though they say it is possibly not entirely Ukraine) it penetrates through me instantly..."
Olena Dziyadevych: I don’t stitch the ornaments, I knit them
June 23, 2010 14:45 5
"Most often I make floral ornaments. I scrutinize manuals, albums of national Ukrainian costumes and try to reproduce after the pictures the ornaments that ancient masters used to create in the old times..."
Semen Tlusty: Aspen toy drives the devil away
June 23, 2010 14:33 6
"You know who is killed by an aspen stake? Vampires are. So the children were given these toys starting from their childhood for evil not to touch them. And because of this the aspen toy has the strength of a guardian talisman".
Olexander Kovalchuk: Each artist should have a Mamay
June 23, 2010 13:46 6
"Among all the artists, sculptures, wood carvers – that is all the people involved in the decorative and applied art - practically everybody one time or another touches upon the Kozak Mamay theme. And everyone sees it his own way... The conception itself and what everything should look like I had been cherishing for a year."
Yuriy Melnychuk: Even the most poor girl used to embroider at least 30 shirts and chemises
May 21, 2010 01:41 5
Yuri Melnytchuk, a member of Kiev museum of Ivan Honchar, is perhaps considered the most known connoisseur of the art of national embroidery in Ukraine. Starting from 1996, he has been teaching ladies to make embroideries in a correct manner and running a thematic studio.
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