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Collective Farm Landscape

Yaroslava Muzyka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-117
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: Collective Farm Landscape
Date of creation: 1958
Country: the USSR
Technique: colour linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 20 x 16.2

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Artist's lifetime: 1894–1973
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine
Biography: Yaroslava Muzyka (Stefanovych) was born in Zaliztsi in Ternopil region on January 10, 1894. She died on November 24, 1973, in Lviv. She was an artist of diverse preferences and talent. She turned to graphic art – linocuts, woodcuts, drypoint, monotype; painting – oil, tempera, gouache, encaustic; mosaic and enamel, on glass, grattage on gold or silver foil, batik, embossing on leather, embossing on metal. She studied drawing and painting at Leonard Podhorodecki Free Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv and André Lhote Academy in Paris. In 1928, she trained as an art restorer at the Central State Restoration Workshop of Ihor Grabar in Moscow. She also worked at the National Museum in the restoration workshop. Yaroslava Muzyka was one of the founders of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (AIUA), a Ukrainian public art organization that operated in Lviv from 1931–1939. In 1937, the artist learned the difficult technique of burning enamel objects by attending Mariia Dolnytska classes in Lviv. In addition, she studied on her own using French and German enamelling manuals. The artist worked in the technique of bulk (scenic, painted) and cloisonne enamel. Her favourite subjects in the enamel works were Hutsul demonology, pagan mythology, beliefs of ancient Slavs, the works by Taras Shevchenko, images of animals, and female portraits.

Object description

The image depicts a print in the centre of the sheet, performed in black and ocher. In the foreground to the left, the figure of a woman with a sheaf in her hands is portrayed against the black background of the earth. To her right is a pair of harnessed oxen; in the background is a light strip of field with dark figures of reapers. Bending down, they knit sheaves. Behind them, a tractor with a header is shown on the right; on the left is a tree. In the background to the left is depicted a one-floor house and mountains. Black birds can be seen in the sky above.

Inscriptions

At the bottom right below the print is an inscription in pencil: "Muzyka Yar.". On the back of the mat along the upper edge is written in pencil: "Y. Muzyka ‘Collective Farm Landscape’ No. 360/1".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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