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Anatoly and Hanna Kryvolap

Painter
Anatoly Dmytrovych Kryvolap (*September 11, 1946, Yagotyn) is a Ukrainian artist, a master of Ukrainian non-figurative painting and landscape, a member of the art group "Painting Reserve" (1991-1995). Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2012. Active member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine since 2021.Hanna Kryvolap is the talented daughter of the famous Ukrainian artist Anatoly Kryvolap. Hanna Kryvolap was born in 1977 in Kyiv. Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and the international art association "Syrlin Kunstverein International". Currently, she is included in the top 100 most outstanding Ukrainian artists.
Ukrainian
1946

'Colour is my language'

Colour tints are neurons creating vibes. A painter senses through colours and reacts with colours. First you get some impressions just when squeezing a tube of paint, then, mixing the colours gives you some stains, that change the emotional spectrum. Once you put the initial feeling on canvas, it brings about something else, something deeper, bigger and vaster. For a painter, the most important thing is to capture, retain and render the feeling as precisely as possible.

'Studio is my sanctuary'

I have worked in many studious during my life. However, I spent most of my time in the boiler room of a dwelling house in the Nyvki district in Kyiv. Over the last fifteen years I have been working in the attic in my cottage in Zasupoyivka village, and my downtown studio is located on Andriyivsky Uzviz, Kyiv’s art and culture hub. I never mix imagination and reality. My studio is my temple reared for creative work.
I’ve had dozens solo and group exhibitions abroad, sold lots of paintings to international collectors, but I can only live in Ukraine and draw Ukraine.

'I am Ukrainian'

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