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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

Revelations of an expressionist

25 October, 2005 - 00:00

The Dim Mykoly Gallery (Mykola’s House) is hosting a solo exhibit of works by the Lviv-based artist Alla Honcharuk. Although her paintings are extremely diverse, they are by no means a careless mixture of styles or experiments that sometimes become the ultimate goal. Honcharuk’s work is a logical and supremely honest and uncompromising search for answers to questions whose magnitude is evident even in the titles of her pictures: “Death of a Human,” “Fallen Angel,” “The Life of Maria,” and “Musicians.” The works of this Lviv artist are rightly considered a continuation of the traditions of German expressionism. They are distinguished by clarity and laconic expression, while their solemn, but not reverential, monumentality imparts a symbolic meaning to everything, be it a heavenly event or a country dance.

By Oksana LAMONOVA, specially for The Day
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