Paraska Khoma from the collection of the Art Museum of Prykarpattia" is an album that collects the most vivid works of the famous Ukrainian artist Paraska Khoma. For a wide range of readers.
Paraska Khoma - a master of folk decorative painting, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1973), laureate of the Kateryna Bilokur award, regional award named after Yaroslava Lukavetskyi, Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine (1973), Knight of the Order of Princess Olga III degree (2016). Awarded the silver medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
She was born in a peasant family with many children. Having received an incomplete secondary education, from the age of 14 she worked in a collective farm field. I have been drawing flower compositions since childhood.
Paraska Khoma actively showed herself in the genre of decorative painting. Her works, made in folk primitivism, are characterized by rich imagination, bright colors, free symmetry, and the ability to decoratively resolve the flatness of the image.
In artistic circles, the talent of the artist was revealed at the age of 35. It was then that Paraska Petrivna's son Yaroslav, who was studying at the Kosiv School of Decorative and Applied Arts, showed his mother's drawings to his teacher, professional artist Yulian Savka. In the same year 1968, with the assistance of the famous art critic Borys Voznytskyi, the first exhibition of Paraska Khoma's works was organized in the Lviv Art Gallery. The following exhibitions of the artist were held in the Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kyiv, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore, in the Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Craft in Lviv, in the Ukrainian Culture Fund in Kyiv...
Paraska Khoma's creative output includes more than 5,000 works. Among them are "Dahlias", "Carnations", "Sunflowers", "Poppies", "Nicoles", "Garden Flowers", "Flower Songs", "Harvest", "Peacocks in Flowers", "Ash Trees", "Golden Summer "... Many of the artist's works are kept in the museums of Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kanev, Snyatyn, in private collections of Australia, the USA, Canada, and Poland.
