ARTish Words: MARIA PRYMACHENKO: folk artist + peaceful protest / Why Maria Matters

How has a small peasant woman with rudimentary art supplies and childlike paintings of fantastical beasts forced the world to acknowledge the absurdity of war? Ukrainian folk artist MARIA PRYMACHENKO (1908-1997) —dubbed the People’s Artist of Ukraine—produced hundreds of small, colorful gouache paintings of imaginary creatures, flowers and village scenes filled with traditional Ukrainian decorative patterns that captured the heart and soul of a nation. In this ARTish Words episode, we d...

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ARTish Plunge, a podcast for anyone interested in the curious relationship between artists and the other professions, day jobs, or past experiences that have allowed them to plunge into the art they create.