Ripin and Malevich’s paintings were included in the register of Ukrainian cultural heritage
2 January 17:05
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The Expert and Fund Commission of the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine has included 11 unique museum objects originating from four Ukrainian museums in the State Register of National Cultural Heritage. Among the exhibits are works by two prominent Ukrainian artists, Kazymyr Malevych and Ilya Ripin, Komersant ukrainskyi reports citing the ministry’s press service.
One of the most valuable exhibits is the painting “Suprematism-65” by Kazimir Malevich from the collection of the Kharkiv Art Museum. This work is an example of Suprematism, a unique artistic style that Malevich founded in 1915. The painting demonstrates the artist’s innovative vision and reflects his contribution to the development of world art.
Another prominent exhibit included in the register is Illya Ripin’s painting “Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan,” which also belongs to the Kharkiv Art Museum. This work is a landmark not only for Ukrainian but also for world art. Ripyn worked on this painting, as well as its second version, for almost 20 years, making numerous expeditions to the places where the descendants of the Cossacks settled in order to convey their spirit of freedom and brotherhood as accurately as possible.
“No one in the whole world has ever experienced such freedom, equality, and brotherhood as the Cossacks,”
– ripyn wrote in the wake of his admiration for the Ukrainian Cossacks.
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Another important exhibit included in the register is the Aprakos Gospel of 1707, printed in the Kyiv Cave Monastery. This unique old print is an exceptional example of a large-format Ukrainian Cyrillic book and is considered one of the most outstanding projects in the history of Ukrainian book printing before the nineteenth century.
Kazymyr Malevych
Kazymyr Malevych was born in Kyiv to a Polish father and a Ukrainian mother who came from the Poltava region. The artist spent his childhood and youth in a Ukrainian village, which significantly influenced his worldview and art. In the 1930s, during his arrest, Malevich personally wrote “Ukrainian” in the “nationality” column. Today, leading museums around the world identify him as a Ukrainian artist. In addition to his Suprematist works, Malevich is the author of the painting “Where Hammer and Sickle, There is Death and Famine,” which became the first artistic reflection of the Holodomor.
Ilya Ripyn
Ilya Ripyn, one of the most famous artists of his time, was born in Ukraine and gained his first professional skills in painting icons in the churches of Sloboda Ukraine. He was deeply interested in Ukrainian history, in particular the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks, which became the main theme of many of his works. The artist loved his homeland and considered himself a patriot. At his own request, Ripyn was buried in his estate near Chuhuiv, on the Chuhuiv Hill, which became a symbol of his memory of his hometown.
