Boychukism (Monumentalism)
Бойчукізм
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.
Artists of the Movement
Mykhailo Boichuk
1882–1937
Founder of Boichukism, a monumental school synthesising Byzantine, Quattrocento and Ukrainian folk art; co-founder/rector of the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts. Executed by the NKVD on 13 July 1937; nearly all his monumental works were destroyed.
Vasyl Sedliar
1899–1937
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.
Works from this Movement
The Milkmaid
Mykhailo Boichuk
Execution at Mezhyhiria
Vasyl Sedliar
A partly destroyed monumental painting; one of the few surviving works of Sedliar, executed in 1937.
In the Liknep School
Vasyl Sedliar
Illustration for Shevchenko's 'Kobzar'
Vasyl Sedliar
An illustration for the landmark 1931 'Kobzar' in the monumental Boychukist style.