A woman who inspires. Kateryna Bilokur
Continuing to be inspired by talented women, today we want to share interesting facts from the life of Kateryna Bilokur, a Ukrainian artist in the genre of naive art, a master of folk decorative painting. She is one of the most famous women of ancient and modern Ukraine.
– At the age of 6 she learned to read, but her parents did not send her to school to save money on clothes and shoes;
– Parents did not approve of painting and forbade to do it, because they thought it would distract from housework and harm marriage;
– Secretly from her parents, the artist painted with carbon on a white canvas and washed it each time to depict a new work;
– She was twice denied admission to college because she did not have 7 years of primary education;
– After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, her parents accepted her admiration and allowed her to continue drawing;
– The first personal exhibition of the self-taught artist in the Poltava House of Folk Art had a great success, and from this moment began to
flourish creativity of the artist;
– Paintings by Kateryna Bilokur aroused the Pablo Picasso’s admiration, who saw her works during an international exhibition in Paris.
Overcoming difficult obstacles in rural life, Kateryna Bilokur was able to reach the pinnacle of success and glorify Ukrainian art around the world.
