In my life I have travelled a lot and these trips have always inspired me to create new works, to find a new style or painting technique. Most of all I like to visit the Mediterranean countries, especially the South of Europe. ...
read all...Golden evening light is flooding the green hills of Tuscany, while the sun is slowly sinking into the Ligurian Sea there, in the West. Goldish sunset will soon change into lavender dusk, full of smells of the earth heated by the summer sun, flowers and grasses. Turquoise and azure of the sea and the sky...
read all...It is quite clear now that Olena Onufriv is one of the most successful artists of the new generation. The secret of her success is probably rooted in the distinguishable and striking style of painting that reflects her radiant personality and positive attitude to life.
“Passion” is a very correct way to describe Olena’s work and way of life.
read all...Painting of Olena Onufrive, an artist from Lviv, in the first place, strikes a viewer with its pictorial strength and southern temperament, with its bright colors, as if these paintings were not from Lviv, but from the very heart of the tropics, from the distant shores of the South Seas. This kind of painting exemplifies a specific creative paradigm that may be called hedonistic.
read all...During past few years creative work of Olena Onufriv took a prominent place in artistic environment in Lviv. Despite the fact, that lately she did more work in Kyiv and for Kyiv, creative methods she adopted in Lviv art school can be traced in almost all of her projects.
read all...Immersion in art Olena Onufriv – is to escape from life itself. Contemplating, open unpredictable world, that leads us to a secret of unreal, color spirituality that promotes the absorption of a gentle spirit of endless feelings guessing all the features of the world.
read all...Olena Onufriv belongs to the generation of those young Lviv artists who started working in the 90s of the 20th century. A lot of Ukrainian artists of that period were affected by the end-of-the-century syndrome, characterized by the new-millenium mood and the new decadence. This mood was mainly aimed at learning...
read all...Lviv is a major city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically also for Ukraine’s neighbour, Poland. The historic centre of Lviv with its old buildings and cobblestone roads has survived the Second World War and the Soviet presence largely unscathed.
read all...Though Ukrainian art has always been an organic component of the East European culture, it nevertheless maintained a strong cultural identity, bearing many inventive features. In the early 20th century art of Ukraine had been drawn into the pan-European avant-garde movement.
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