🖌️🎨 Kateryna Bilokur (1900-1961)



 "Flowers Behind the Wall"
Kateryna Bilokur
1935
Oil on canvas.
Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art
Kyiv


In 1922, Kateryna Bilokur brought her drawings to the ceramics technical school. It seemed like her flowers and painted cups and plates were a perfect match. But the girl was rejected: she had no education. None at all.


Her home in her native Bohdanivka was prosperous. But this prosperity required constant farm labor. School was too far away, and her shoes would wear out. So little Katya wasn't sent to school; she was left to work in the fields and around the house. Drawing, however, was discouraged. How stupid!


But she painted anyway. What she saw and loved: flowers. And on her canvases, she often wrote: "Painted from life by K. Bilokur." Although it's hard to find such a natural setting: roses, mallows, lilies, tulips, morning glory—all close together and all blooming at once.


Naive art is precisely about an ideal world. Even if there's cold, hunger, and darkness all around, Bilokur's flowers bloom and hold the light.











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