Guest Seminar | Universal and Vernacular, Abstract and
Decorative: Modernist Encounter with Ukrainian Folk Art
Course: The Local in the Global Context
Masaryk University, Brno
1 November 2024
Triadic Spatial
Model
(as per Harsha Ram)
Decolonizing periphery
Imperial metropole
A rival cosmopolitan
centre(s)
Verbivka
Triadic Spatial
Model
(The Case of Verbivka)
Decolonizing periphery – Ukraine
as part of the Russian Empire
Imperial metropole – Moscow and
St Petersburg
A rival cosmopolitan centre - Paris
Map of Central and Eastern Europe, 1900s
Kyiv
The estate of the Davydov family in Verbivka,
Photograph, 1876, Private collection
Artisans from the Verbivka workshop,
Photograph, 1915, Archive of the National
Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine
Alexandra Exter, Photograph, 1910s, Archive of the National
Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine
Alexandra Exter, Composition (Genova), 1912, oil on
canvas, 115.5 x 86.5 cm, Private collection
Organisational committee for The
South-Russian Exhibition of Applied
Arts and Handicrafts, 1906, Archive of
the National Folk Decorative Art
Museum of Ukraine
Installation shots, The South-Russian Exhibition of
Applied Arts and Handicrafts, 1906, Archive of The
National Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine. Photo
credit: I. O. Knypovych
Reconstruction of the 18th-century Ukrainian house
Podillia Section
Installation shots, The South-Russian Exhibition of
Applied Arts and Handicrafts, 1906, Archive of The
National Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine. Photo
credit: I. O. Knypovych
Reconstruction of the 18th-century Ukrainian house
Podillia Section
Installation shots, The South-Russian Exhibition of
Applied Arts and Handicrafts, 1906, Archive of The
National Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine. Photo
credit: I. O. Knypovych
Reconstruction of the 18th-century Ukrainian house
Podillia Section
Installation shots, The South-Russian Exhibition of
Applied Arts and Handicrafts, 1906, Archive of The
National Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine. Photo
credit: I. O. Knypovych
Reconstruction of the 18th-century Ukrainian house
Podillia Section
Samples of traditional runners [ryshnyk], carpet
[kylym] and Easter eggs [pysanka] from the
Podillia region, Ivan Honchar Museum, Kyiv
Samples of embroidery patterns for female garments, sheets 2 and 27, in Kosach, Ukrainian Folk
Ornament (1876)
Samples of embroidery patterns, sheets 1 and 2, in K. Dalmatov, Velikorusskie uzory
[Great Russian Patterns] (Moscow, 1889), Private collection
‘Embroideries no. 1, 2, 3 created in the estate of Natalia Davydova,
village Verbivka’, plate XLL, in The Second All-Russian Kustar
Exhibition, catalogue (Petrograd, 1914), The British Library
Samples of traditional runners [ryshnyk], carpet
[kylym] and Easter eggs [pysanka] from the
Podillia region, Ivan Honchar Museum, Kyiv
Catalogue for the exhibition Contemporary Decorative Art: Embroideries and
Carpets Based on Artists’ Sketches, Moscow, 1915, Archive of The National Folk
Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine
Installation shot from the exhibition Contemporary Decorative Art:
Embroideries and Carpets Based on Artists’ Sketches, Moscow, 1915, in
newspaper Iskry no. 45 (15.11.1915), p. 8
Photograph of Yevmen Pshechenko, Verbivka, Undated
National Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine, Archive of
Hryhorii Mestiechkin
Yevmen Pshechenko
Design for a rug, 1920s
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 51 x 65 cm
National Folk Decorative Art Museum of Ukraine
Installation shot from the exhibition Contemporary Decorative Art: Embroideries
and Carpets Based on Artists’ Sketches, Moscow, 1915, in newspaper Iskry no. 45
(15.11.1915), p. 8
Kazimir Malevich | Kazymyr
Malevych | Kazimierz Malewicz
Installation shots from The Second
Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative
Art, Moscow, 1917, Collection of
Charlotte Douglas
Photo credit: Oliver Sayler
Kazymyr Malevych, Suprematist Composition, pillowcase, 1916,
executed by the Verbivka workshop, installation view from The
Second Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Moscow,
1917
Kazymyr Malevych
Untitled, ca. 1916
Oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Installation shot from the exhibition Contemporary Decorative Art: Embroideries
and Carpets Based on Artists’ Sketches, Moscow, 1915, in newspaper Iskry no. 45
(15.11.1915), p. 8
Kazymyr Malevych, Suprematist Composition, pillowcase, 1916,
executed by the Verbivka workshop, installation view from The
Second Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Moscow,
1917
Kazymyr Malevych
Untitled, ca. 1916
Oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Kazymyr Malevych, Untitled, ca. 1916, oil on canvas, 53
x 53 cm, Peggy Guggenheim
Collection, Venice
Embroidered Hand Towel, early 20th
century, Podillia, Ivan Honchar Museum,
Kyiv
Alexandra Exter, Purse, 1917, moulinet on black moiré, executed by
the Verbivka workshop, 18 x 14.5 cm, Private collection
Alexandra Exter
Purse, 1917
Moulinet on black moiré, executed by the Verbivka
workshop, 18 x 14.5 cm
Private collection
Fernand Léger
Contrast of Forms, 1913
Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.1 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sonia Delaunay
Composition for the front cover of Ricciotto
Canudo’s book Les Transplantes, 1913
Fabric on leather, 29,5 x 17 x 3 cm
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Sonia Delaunay
Quilt, 1911
Fabric, 109 x 81 cm
Pompidou Centre, Paris