Gamalia

The monumental portrait of Gamalia is a collective image of the charismatic strong-willed Cossack. The image is solved by combining contrasting color planes with stylized elements of different textures. The portrait demonstrates the author's reading of Taras Shevchenko's poem "Gamaliya", which was published in a separate book in 1844: "Gamalia on the Scooter - / Walking through Hell, / Breaks the Huddig, / Shackles Breaks".

Maria Cymbalista 
Head of Prints and Drawings department
From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.