Kyiv Post: Kateryna Bilokur, the Genial Self-Taught Painter Who Loved Flowers More Than Life
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Kateryna Bilokur
Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur was a Ukrainian folk artist, painter and poet born in the Poltava Governorate. After an unpromising start, her works became known in the late 1930s and 1940s for their interest in nature. Her paintings have become famous for depictions of peasant life among Ukrainian women,. Above all it was Bilokur's flowers done in oil on canvas which brought her general recognition, w…
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culture · Ukrainian artist (1900–1961) · painter · visual artist · also Kateryna Bilokur, Katerina Bilokur, Katerina Belokur, Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur, Bilokur
Born 25 November 1900 · Died 10 June 1961 · Q4082561
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1961· 1 entry
Died 1961-06-10.
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded People's Painter of the USSR (1956).
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Bilokur received the title of "People's Artist" of the Ukrainian SSR
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1954· 1 entry
Three paintings by Bilokur - "Tsar Kolos", "Birch", and "Kolkhoz Field" - were included in the exposition of Soviet art at the International Exhibition in Paris)
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1951· 3 entries
Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1951).
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Awarded Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).
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Was awarded the "Badge of Honor" and received the title of Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR
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1949· 1 entry
Bilokur became a member of the Artists Union of Ukraine
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1948· 1 entry
Her father Vasily Bilokur died
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1947· 1 entry
Bilokur was offered the opportunity to paint the likeness of Stalin, but declined
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1944· 1 entry
Vasyl Nahai, the director of the State Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Arts, visited Bohdanivka and acquired a number of paintings from Bilokur
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1940· 1 entry
An exhibition of 11 paintings by Bilokur opened in the House of Folk Art in Poltava
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1928· 1 entry
Bilokur heard about a drama school in Kyiv, and decided to try out her luck there
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-11-25.
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