Oxen

Yaroslava Muzyka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-101
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: Oxen
Country: the USSR
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 6.4 x 8.8

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: animal painting
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 black-and-white print in the centre of the sheet. It portrays a pair of oxen turned to the right. In the foreground, a dark ox is shown; in the background, a white one leaning to the ground is depicted. Clouds are outlined with light spots above them, and the earth is marked with light stripes under them.

Inscriptions

At the bottom of the image on the mat is an inscription in pencil: "drzeworyt". On the back along the upper edge of the sheet is an inscription in pencil: "Y. Muzyka.’Oxen’. No. 390/1".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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