Vera Faber (PDF)
https://doi.org/10.53631/DIS/2017.8.3
At the beginning of the 20th century, avant-garde artists in Ukraine certainly referred to traditional archaic art, especially in applied arts, where avant-garde women artists related their work to traditional forms of women’s creativity. The so-called ‘folk-futurists’ adapted local peasant art traditions to avant-garde art ideas. Together with famous avant-garde artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Exter and Lyubov Popova, the folk masters transferred the principles of suprematism, cubism and futurism into typical Ukrainian crafts. The article aims to show how avant-garde artists in the Ukrainian villages of Verbivka and Skoptsi implemented utopian futuristic visions by borrowing from the past. In this context, the focus is emphasised on binary oppositions such as collective/individual, past/present and centre/periphery.
Keywords: avant-garde, Ukrainian art, peasant artisans, Kazimir Malevich, Verbivka, Skoptsi