Artist Maria Prymachenko

Art of Maria Prymachenko was heralded by Picasso. The colorful and bizarre world of life, gone insane. Her fantastic beasts encapsulate the suffering of the past and future Ukraine. Starvation prevails. Horrors depicted from a harmless peasant. God gifted her with brushes, paints, a surreal imagination to depict the horrors of deprivation and cannibalism. A colorful bird with her young in her mouth, appears to be nurturing, but when the history of the Ukraine is known, under Stalin’s reign, it is altogether a macabre depiction of hunger in its morbid form. Primal myths painted amidst blue-yellow sunflowers. Maria’s experience as a young peasant girl in her twenties. God took her away last century. Her paintings in Kyiv are in jeopardy. She would be appalled at this latest upheaval of the land she knew. Monsters once more! Upheaval of breath, to starve, to lose your freedom… but for fate, we’d be likewise reduced to our base selves. Would we just lie down and sleep with a quaking belly or tear flesh from the bones of the dead to quash our hunger. Poets remain vigilant with imagery as artists stir paint. Emotions in yellow and blue, hopefully not in red and white too. We must cherish, be careful, be cognizant and wise, lest we lick the boots of dictators that slither from the rocks. O Lord quicken your compassionate heart and warm breath. Let the nations pray for places on the map, relatable and otherwise. All creeds and colors give peace, food, intact family. Let the demons flee to their abysmal home in hell. 3/24/2022 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/18/ukraine-best-loved-artist-peasant-maria-prymachenko-terrifying-fooled-stalin-dictator?fbclid=IwAR15mTkFFcXesz5n1yxaPLyKoXFR773Tvf6EMdzi7NXdaFpp6XeGuaICYPc