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Liubov Ktytorova and Tetiana
Vlenenko
Liuba came from a totally different background. She was born in Northern Kazakhstan and lived in the city of Burly. This was where most of the Ukrainians lived who were in Kazakhstan. They had their own school and built a church there. In 1922 the church was destroyed by the Soviets and Liuba's great-grandfather saved everything in the church and hid it from the authorities. Liuba's grandmother secretly baptized the Ukrainian children of Burly in her home. Liuba's grandmother's name was Fiokla. In Christian heritage Fiokla was the first women who believed in God. Liuba moved to Kyiv after several years in Kazakhstan, when her uncle, a military man, was transferred to Kyiv. Liuba and Tetiana are both married. Tetiana has a daughter Mariya, who also is a pysanky artist and studies with her mother and Liuba.
They went to different museums and private homes, where they studied real authentic old Ukrainian pysanka. There was not very much literature about old pysanky at the time and sometimes the ladies walked 30 km through the Carpathian mountains to find the places where pysanky had been made for a long, long time. They went to places where the secrets of the symbols and the painting of pysanky had been passed from generation to generation. In these places it was forbidden to change something in the symbol. The symbol was like a prayer. In ancient times ladies (only ladies were engaged in this form of art) had to obey certain rules. They could only paint on Maundy Thursday of the last week of Lent. A lady had to wear clean clothes, and to pray before starting painting.
Their second exhibition took place at the Artists Union in Kyiv in the winter of 1999-2000. It was called "Christmas Saloon". Their third Exhibition was in February of 2000, and was dedicated to Epiphany. It was held at the House of Scientists in Kyiv. Since that time there have also been exhibitions in the House of Nature, the Union Of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine exhibition hall, and at the Ukrainian House, an exhibition which was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Folk Masters Union. They have also had an exhibition in the Palace of Arts in Lviv which was an exhibition of pysanky which were only painted with natural colors. Their best pysanky art is exhibited at the Lavra Museum Of Decorative And Applied Arts of Ukraine. They sometimes set up and sell their works on Andriyivskyi downhill. A person from Munchen, Germany once bought their works and then exhibited their pysanka in Munchen. There have been some short films made about Liubov and Tetiana and their work. The first was for the "Thousand Lessons" program produced by the second Ukrainian National TV channel. The short documentary showed their works and their teaching children at one of the Kyiv schools. In 1997 there was a series of programs made for TV which involved several pysanky artists. The series was called "Secrets Of Eternity". Liuba and Tania will exhibit their works at
an upcoming exhibition (April, 2001) to be held at the Folk Masters
Union. The exhibition is dedicated to Easter. Liuba and Tania enjoy
their work together painting pysanky and hope to study, paint and
exhibit pysanka art for many more years.
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 and Liubov Ktytorova (left)','with some of their Pysanky art'))
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