“I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.” -Picasso
Russian forces have destroyed the Ivankiv Historical-Cultural Museum containing works by Maria Primachenko. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyp5m7/russian-forces-destroyed-the-wild-and-beautiful-art-of-ukrainian-painter-maria-prymachenko
Villagers say some works have been saved from the fire, but much remains unknown. The town of Ivankiv is 42 miles south of the Chernobyl power plant.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Prymachenko
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivankiv_Historical_and_Local_History_Museum
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivankiv
It looks like the English Wikipedia has got a war template now. “This article may be affected by the following current event: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine” {{Current related|date=February 2022|2=2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|}}. Ha, there’s a template in Russian too: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Примаченко, Мария Авксентьевна. Wonder if they can see it in Russia.
According to this, she grew up in Bolotnya in the Ivankiv Raion, Kiev Oblast. But the only Bolotnya in Wikipedia is one in Russia, which Wikipedia says has only four streets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolotnya Bolotnya (Lviv district). LOL, “bolotnya” means swamp.
Here is the Ukrainian Bolotnya on Maplandia. http://www.maplandia.com/ukraine/kyyivska/bolotnya/I love Maplandia. If you are ever living in some weird place, go to Maplandia and you will find all the weird suqs and local shopping malls, which in other cultures tend to be by product, i.e. the spice market, the gold market, etc. http://www.maplandia.com/ukraine/kyyivska/bolotnya/
And here is the missing article in Ukrainian: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Болотня (Вишгородський район). It even mentions Maria Primachenko (Приймаченко Марія Оксентіївна ).
“Our Army, Our Protectors” by Maria Pryimachenko, 1978:
It sure looks like she knew about the sunflowers. And like the sunflower lady, it looks like she knew how to curse something too.
(above) “May That Nuclear War Be Cursed!” Maria Primachenko,
original title: Атомна війна, будь проклята вона! 1978
More art by Maria Pryimachenko, if you just want to look at the fantastic creatures:
“A set of postcards by Maria Primachenko” from Ukrainian art library, http://en.uartlib.org/books/a-set-of-postcards-by-maria-primachenko/ (18 pages)- https://www.wikiart.org/en/maria-primachenko (119 artworks)
She does have a category on Commons, but it’s not exactly well populated. All you have to do is look at the various articles in various languages and you can see there is a lot missing. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maria_ Someone could go through there with HotCat and make a lot of improvements in a few minutes. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-HotCat Just enable the gadget, click the + by the categories, and start typing. It should autocomplete your category.
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