Veniamin Kushnir belongs to those few artists, who, over the stuffy years of totalitarist system and sotsrealism, made their way in the Ukrainian national art. “I am a Ukrainian painter and my art should be national” – this was his motto. Romantic and thinker, he always strived for freedom, painted only what he wanted to, what really touched him.
Feeling of the social responsibility for the historic fate of Ukraine was crucial in the creative conscience of the painter. He participated actively in the “sixties” movement, headed painter section of the Club of Creative Youth.
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