Seasons

Yaroslava Muzyka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-118
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: Seasons
Date of creation: 1961
Country: the USSR
Technique: colour linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 27.1 x 29.3

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. The picture is divided into four horizontal stripes. In the upper one at the left, two fir trees are depicted on a white background; at the right is shown an ocher figure of a skier, and a tree fragment is visible to her right. Below, a man and a woman holding hands are depicted on a black background. In the centre is a stylised tree; at the right, there are flowers. In the third strip in the centre is a field with spikelets on an ocher background; at the right is a white figure of a woman with a sheaf in her hands. At the bottom left, on a black background, there is a tree from which leaves have fallen; next to it is a fragment of the road and a woman walking along it. At the right is a white tree from which leaves are falling.

Inscriptions

At the bottom left below the image is a signature and date in pencil: "Muzyka Yaroslava 1961", to the right is the author's inscription: "Seasons. Summer". On the back along the upper edge is an inscription in pencil: "Y. Muzyka. ‘The Four Seasons’ No. 305/2".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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