Vasyl Sedliar
Василь Седляр
1899–1937 · Khrystivka, Poltava region
Close associate of Boichuk; painter, ceramicist and book artist best known for his complete cycle of illustrations to Shevchenko's 'Kobzar'; executed by the NKVD in 1937.
Art Movements
Boychukism (Monumentalism)
A Ukrainian monumental-art school founded by Mykhailo Boychuk fusing Byzantine icon tradition, Italian Quattrocento and Ukrainian folk art into a synthetic 'great style'. Annihilated by Stalinism — its leaders executed in 1937 and nearly all works destroyed.
Explore movement →1920s–1930sExecuted Renaissance
The generation of Ukrainian artists and writers of the 1920s–30s whose national cultural flowering was suppressed by Soviet terror, with many executed or driven to death during the Great Purge.
Explore movement →1910s–1930sUkrainian Graphic Art & Book Design
An early-20th-century renaissance of Ukrainian graphic art, typography, book illustration and state symbolism. Its founding figure Heorhiy Narbut created the visual identity of the modern Ukrainian state.
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