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Oleksandr Bryndikov and his woodcuts

Witnessing folk woodcuts is very inspiring. Of this Oleksandr Bryndikov, an artist connected with Lviv and Kyiv, is certain. Born in 1983 in Gorodek, and a graduate of the Academy of Art (his specialisation – monumental painting), he currently works at the A. Szeptycki National Museum in Lviv. According to Bryndikov, an encounter with this…

Workshops at Open Day at Ethnographic Museum

The participants learned about the different steps of making woodcuts: from planning the subject, copying it to the surface of a lime-tree block and cutting it out, to printing it on paper. This seemingly simple task turned out to be a real challenge for printmaking enthusiasts participating in the workshops for whom this was the…

Workshops for adults

The participants had an opportunity to see examples of woodcut blocks, as well as monochrome and water colour folk prints presented at the exhibition „A meeting. Folk woodcuts from the collection of Józef Gwalbert Pawlikowski preserved in Lwów”. The workshops were run by Justyna Mazur, lithographer, illustrator.

Woodcuts from Lviv

An exhibition of folk woodcuts from the collection of Józef Gwalbert Pawlikowski (1793-1852) has been on show in Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow since 12 September 2014. One hundred and forty-one prints collected in the early nineteenth century are now in Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lwów which took over the…

Workshops for teachers

The theme of this first meeting was the potential for using the MEK’s collection of Polish folk woodcuts as educational material in classroom projects on life cycles in nature. In the course of these workshops we shared tools useful for teaching children to observe the changes that take place in the lives of plants and…

The woodcut. Through the looking-glass

After learning about the intricacies of the woodcut technique and examining example prints on display in the folk art exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum, the students were introduced to ways in which people used to indicate ownership in books. In the practical part, they used their own initials as the basis on which to design…

Attributes of the saints in action

The primary idea behind this workshop was to make the children aware of ways in which figures of the saints are represented in folk art. Through direct contact with woodcut blocks, sculptures and paintings in our Gallery of Folk Art, the children discovered how these artists once viewed the world. During the discussion accompanying the…

Workshops with St. George and the Dragon

For the first time during these days, a specially prepared woodcut block was used for people with impaired vision. Pupils and teachers from the primary and technical schools took part in the two workshops. Zbigniew Biel, the author of the woodcut block, was present too, as were members of the project team. The central character…

WOODCUT BOARDS

  My knowledge and experience associates lengthwise woodcutting with lime wood, with its yielding structure, colour and peculiar smell. The notion of a woodcutter from centuries past is closely identified with a sculptor of altars, for whom a linden board or block were basic materials and as such indispensable. The ease of working with lime…

PROJECT AIMS

Attention started to be paid to Polish woodcuts at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. During this period, however, researchers were not so much interested in the artists themselves, neither their methods nor the history of such artistic trends. They concentrated rather on individual works of art, their iconography and stylistic qualities, hailing…

ABOUT THE PROJECT

It will document and make available knowledge on Polish folk woodcutting. For professionals it will be a place for the exchange of information and experience, while for other users it will create an environment geared towards education and fun, as well as room for creative inventiveness. We are certain that folk woodcuts are a remarkable,…