Description

Title: Shevchenko Monument. Kharkiv Artist: Svitlana Dudenko Year: 2023 Dimensions: 70 × 50 cm Medium: Oil pencil on paper Gallery: SmaltaArtGallery

ARTSY

Dudenko translates Kharkiv’s iconic Taras Shevchenko monument into a vibrant graphic homage. Bands of yellow and blue arc like protective light around the sculptural group, while precise oil‑pencil lines render figures with architectural clarity. The composition fuses civic memory, national colors, and the artist’s Cosmic Orphic Symbolism—a geometry of circles and diagonals that lifts the memorial into a timeless emblem of resilience. A refined work on paper suited to collectors of contemporary Ukrainian art and committed drawing. At its heart, a Cossack figure breaking chains—rendered with transparent wings—symbolizes freedom: the liberation of Ukraine from any shackles.

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