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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

“Family gold”

19 April, 2011 - 00:00

A thus named exhibit was opened in the literary-memorial Pavlo Tychyna Museum. It describes the creative work of three generations of one family — the artists Oleksandr Saienko (1899-1985), Nina Saienko and Lesia Maydanets-Saienko. A number of works are on display, including Cossack Mamai, Windmill, Geese under the Willow, Meeting Cossack by Oleksandr Saienko, who invented a unique author’s technique of “mosaic incrustation with straw” basing upon folk art, and who was also an outstanding master of tapestry carpets. For more than half a century he worked on a graphic chronicle Ballad about Ukraine, which consists of about 500 works of monumental and decorative art. UNESCO has entered the name of the Ukrainian artist on a list of the world’s prominent cultural figures. His daughter’s, Nina Saienko’s works charm with their beauty. They include tapestry carpets: May Dews, Blue Bird, Silvery melody; and decorative pictures: Forest Rhapsody, Water Flowing from under the Maple, Goats under a Tree, Ornamental Flower. Her works are refined in their coloring, and filled with nature’s symbols and encoded folk beliefs. Lesia Maidanets-Saienko is a successor to the family traditions. She creates her own poetic world, saturated with dreams, philosophical contemplations and fantastic images. Her works include the tapestries: Midsummer Fires, Poplar Trees Live Near Me, Birds Fly South, Spring Evening Glows; and the paintings in batik technique: The Milky Way, Toll, Easter, Dream, Sunflowers. They give the viewers a space saturated with bright harmony of rhythms and colors. The “Family gold” exhibit will be open until May 15.

By Olha SAVYTSKA
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