National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art
Folk art museum in a monastery residence, with embroidery, ceramics and self-taught painters' work.
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This guide to the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art in Kyiv follows Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught painter from a village east of the city, and the three canvases of hers sent to an international exhibition in Paris in nineteen fifty-four. It weighs a famous compliment against the paper trail behind it, and reaches back to a farm family that wanted her to stop drawing. Best heard standing in her gallery, close enough to study a single petal.
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