We are starting the spring season of the museum lecture series! The meetings will focus on those artists who have shaped the development of Ukrainian culture in different historical periods. So, it is no coincidence that we will start with Taras Shevchenko, especially in March, when we celebrate the 210th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
Taras Shevchenko is a unique figure in the history of Ukrainian art; no other Ukrainian poet or artist of the nineteenth century can compare to him in terms of the power and originality of his thought. The images created by the artist have become a kind of archetypes that still show us the way to national unity and mutual understanding. Having witnessed the violent destruction of the traditional world of Ukrainians, Shevchenko created in his poetry and painting the still relevant antithesis of “quiet paradise” and “the fire that set paradise on fire” in the soul of one person and the whole nation.
The ideas that worried the artist and were pervasive in his work remain important for the present and for the future. The lecture “Taras Shevchenko: Romantic and Thinker” will be devoted mainly to the analysis of these ideas.
🔸Lecturer: Lesia Tolstova, Deputy Director General for Research at NAMU. She is a researcher who has been engaged in the preservation and study of the museum collection of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for about 20 years, as well as its popularization in exhibitions and publications. Lesia Tolstova’s research interests are focused on the Kyiv School of Drawing (1875-1901) and the works of Kyiv artists, including Mykola Murashko, Hryhorii Diadchenko, Serhii Vasylkivskyi, Ivan Selezniov, Petro Nilus, and Kiriak Kostandi.
🔸 March 8 (Friday) at 5 p.m.
🔸 Entrance fee: full ticket – 250 UAH, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – 150 UAH.
📌 Register here.
📌 In the event of an air raid alert, we ask all visitors to immediately go to a shelter. The nearest shelters are located at 4 Khreshchatyk Street (underground passage near the Dnipro Hotel) and at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station.
📌 If less than 60 minutes of the event have passed at the time of the air raid alert, we will continue the lecture after the air raid is over or on another day. If the event lasted 60 minutes or more, it is considered to have taken place.
You can get to the museum through the service entrance located at the back of the building.
🖼 A fragment of the work is used on the cover: Taras Shevchenko. Starosty. 1844. Etching from the series “Picturesque Ukraine”. Collection of NAMU
