Maria Prymachenko

Maria Prymachenko is a Ukrainian artist who represents naive painting. The author worked with gouache and watercolor and painted ceramics. Prymachenko developed her style – combining folk embroidery motifs, pysanka, and painting with Ukrainian mythology and folklore subjects. Prymachenko's creative method is an immersion in the collective subconscious of Ukrainians and the manifestation of archetypes imprinted in the Ukrainian worldview. The paintings of this artist are like the result of an eternal fairy tale about the attitude of Ukrainians toward the world: a model of nature and interaction with their animals and beasts. Her works surprised the world at exhibitions in France, Canada, Poland, Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, and other countries. The works are stored in the National Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Arts, the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, and the Maria Prymachenko Family Foundation.

Prymachenko bravely drowned her canvases in bright colors; only her characters were filled with monotonous planes with rhythmic folk decorative ornaments. In Primachenko's paintings, strange zoomorphic creatures appear, often figments of her imagination. However, in the "Capercaillie singing a courting song", we can see a natural inhabitant of the Ukrainian fauna - the Western Capercaillie. The picture is painted in vivid spring colors because male capercaillies start their typical aria to attract the females in March-April. This work is about a simple and sensual spring love, which causes the desire to sing.