About This Collection

"Jurij Hura was an inspired painter, whose skilled hands can paint several works at once, stepping away and coming back to each until his muse is satisfied with the finished work. His early preference for hard and somber colors had given way to pastels and rich warm hues. His later paintings exude warmth, movement, and fluidity through his bold brushstrokes. But the world cannot really know the deep feelings that are locked inside of him. His longings are expressed not only in the poeticized renderings of the landscapes which he paints, but also in his return to a thematic, familiar historical genre. As if in the midst of an empty vastness an oasis of familiarity appears – so, too, we can often see a stylized willow or a rising moon symbolizing the nostalgia the artist feels for that which is far away and unreachable. With him and he with it, for the code of the earth – it is in him."

 

From the prologue, written by Mykola Marychevsky, chief editor of The Fine Arts Journal and Artaria Magazine published in Ukraine.

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