The contemplation moment is a moment of delight

Still life genre obtained its independence in the early XVII century. Logically its origins came to be the Netherlands – the country where people know how to relish the "little" joys of life. We inherited from the "fijnschilders"...

Conversation about Natalya Pukhinda’s still life

Two people that at their times got diplomas in History of Art were sitting in a Lviv café and were talking about creative work of Natalya Pukhinda. Map of Galicia in the dusk, Keiser’s portrait on the wall, sad and lengthy...

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Participating in exhibitions in 1976, N. Pukhinda is taking her time and isn’t readily integrating into the context of Lviv art culture with its aged traditions and more than a few hundreds of painters, each of whom is building ...