1. Irina Vysheslavska was born on February 20,1939 and is a Ukrainian artist, painter, graphic artist and set designer.
11 Facts About Irina Vysheslavska
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Irina Vysheslavska was born in Kiev on February 20,1939, into a family of great cultural traditions.
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Irina Vysheslavska's father Leonid Vysheslavsky was a noted poet and her mother Agnes Baltaga was a writer.
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Irina Vysheslavska won the first prize for a watercolor, "Crossing the beach", at the republican exhibition of children's drawings when she was just 8 years old.
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Irina Vysheslavska studied in Kiev's State Art School Taras Shevchenko.
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Irina Vysheslavska studied at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Ilya Repin, Leningrad, Russia.
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Irina Vysheslavska studied for four years in the Leningrad Academy of Arts.
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In Soviet times, Irina Vysheslavska chose so-called "quiet resistance" style primarily excluding communist themes such as underground art.
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Irina Vysheslavska is a portrait and genre scenes master, her art depicts psychology and dynamics.
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Irina Vysheslavska has successfully worked as an illustrator of books and as a theater set designer.
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Iryna Irina Vysheslavska is an art critic, too, she writes about her father.