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"The Kiss," Vsevolod Maksymovych ,1913.

Ukrainian Maksymovych (1894-1914) was a devotee of Aubrey Beardsley and other Art Nouveau stars; some of his other works really reflect a Beardsley style. In fact, he would blow up Beardsley's small-scale stylings to large canvases...and later critics remarked that he was managing to out-Beardsley Beardsley.

Biographical information about him is scant; he was only 19 when he produced most of his work, and apparently was a nudist and bodybuilder as well, but died by suicide in Moscow when he was only 20, seemingly despondent after the failure of his first one-man exhibition.

After his death, since his work was incompatible with official Soviet culture, it was shoved away into storage and forgotten until recent years. Now he's being rediscovered and reappraised as a significant talent that was lost early.

Tantalizingly, it seems he also dabbled in avant-garde film, which warms my cinephile heart.

From the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv.

A while back, I signed up for the Ukrposhta (Ukraine post office) mailing list for commemorative stamps and other philatelic stuff. Essentially, you pay a small fee to be on the list and receive notification of stuff as it becomes available.

I've only bought a couple of items but the second (received today) is a set of all of the stamps issued in 2022 (the all-out war started in February of that year). It includes the famous "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" stamps and the subsequent issue when the Moskva Russian flagship was sunk.

#SlavaUkraine #Ukrposhta #Stamps
#СлаваУкраїні #укрпошта

Mihály Kolodko's latest ministatue. 2 cartoon bears; Paddington
perched on top of another famous
bear: the one from Masha and the
Bear.
Masha is a Russian character. Paddington is holding him tight. By his balls.
😁
Little sidenote that gives more insight to this statue: in the Ukrainian dubbed Paddington movies (I&II), the voice of Paddington is the voice of president Zelenski
#Kolodko #Budapest #Interrail #Eurail #Statue #SlavaUkraine