Oleksandra Pikush

Biography

Oleksandra Avramivna Pikush was born on May 10, 1921 in the village of Petrykivka, Dnipropetrovska oblast. In 1941, she graduated from the Petrykivka School of Decorative Drawing, where her teacher was the legendary Tetiana Pata, thus becoming one of the last graduates of the school, which was interrupted by the Second World War.

Since 1958, she worked at the Factory of Petrykivka Painting “Druzhba ” in Petrykivka, the largest production center of Petrykivka painting in the Soviet era. She died on 27 March 1968 in Petrykivka at the age of 46.

Artistic Practice

Oleksandra Pikush belongs to the generation of direct students of Tetiana Pata, to the “Pata school” that formed the canon of twentieth-century Petrykivka painting. The artist’s works feature the classic Petrykivka style: flower bouquets, viburnum branches, traditional floral ornaments made with tempera on paper.

Recognition

The master’s works are kept in the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (Kyiv), Dnipropetrovs’k Art Museum and Dnipropetrovs’k National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi - the three largest collections of Petrykivka painting in Ukraine.