Carlo Zvirynskyi

Karlo Zvirynskyi (1923 – 1997) is a Ukrainian nonconformist artist, the founder of an underground academy in Lviv (1959-1966), whose methodology was based on reviving modernist artistic practices. In his works, he developed the idea of ​​a syncretic world. With the help of various materials, he created tactile abstraction based on subconscious sensitivity and prayerful meditation. The artist's works are held in museums in Lviv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Wroclaw, New York, and Toronto, as well as in many private collections.

In the works of Karl Zvirynskyi, the forest is a form of rest, meditation, and reflection. Zvirynskyi practices methods of avant-garde art. He admires the beauty of Ukrainian landscapes, experimenting with the effects of lighting and the plasticity of nature. The main thing in the work is color; the artist skillfully combines saturated bright colors to create a lyrical, emotional image of the Carpathians, with the help of which he reproduces his psychological state and inner desire for freedom.