Hunter

"Hunter" belongs to a series of folklore-themed gouache paintings. The series was exhibited at the Ukrainian Plastics Exhibition, organized in Lviv in the fall of 1931 by the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (ANUM). The work demonstrates the original author's way of using ethnographic details to create the image. The artist forms a playful type of hunter, using formal means of avant-garde art: conventions of form, fonts and symbolic attributes. The unexpected foreshortening of the figure gives the composition a dynamic order.
Maria Cymbalista 
Head of Prints and Drawings department
From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.