PYSAR YURII

He was born in Rakhiv, Transcarpathian region. He lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk. The first steps in painting he made in the studio of the artist M. Vorokhta in his native city. He received his art education at the Institute of Arts under the Carpathian National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk in Ivano-Frankivsk, majored in painting. During his studies he twice became a prize-winner of all-Ukrainian student contests in painting and drawing. Since 2008 he completely devoted himself to creative activity. The artist works in the genres of landscape, still life and figurative art.

Priority themes in the artist's works have a beautiful surrounding world, and also-the inner universe of a person, which the artist often communicates to the viewer through elegant female forms. “The “Ballet” series is my main project,” the artist says, “in it I continue to search for what is important personally for me. It is above all the importance of the human soul, the aesthetics of the human movement in space and, of course, spiritual fulfilment, which ballet carries.”

From the sensation tandem of the female image and nature it is appeared the author's technique of the young artist - the so-called “shower”. With its help, he creates a colourful extravaganza on canvas with acrylic smudges. And, if acrylic “showers” are peculiar to the main works from the “Ballet” series, the technique of transparent oil painting took its place in the dynamic still life, landscapes and nude works.
The artist has held more than fifteen personal exhibitions in different cities of Ukraine and in Hungary. Participant in almost two dozen collective exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. The artist's paintings are in the regional museums of Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Poltava, as well as in private collections of numerous countries around the world.