Composition with the Figures III (Communion)

Yelyzaveta Kremnytska, an impressive desciple of the Zakarpattian non-conformism, has been associated with Uzhgorod all her life. She was a student of the founders of Zakarpattian painting school - Erdeli and Bokshai, Manailo and Kontratovych. She worked in the field of easel painting and graphics, designed bus stops in the Zakarpattia region together with her husband Pavlo Bedzir. The artist's graphic works aren’t numerous, but they represent vivid formal experiments in the field. Yelyzaveta Kremnytska's graphic shows the search for a national form, both at the level of subjects and at the level of plastic language, as well as the references to the European modernist schools of the 20th century. The work Composition with figures III. Communion (1961) is marked by heightened expressiveness, rhythmicity, an attempt to combine reality and illusions. Anthropomorphic figures are dynamic, the drawing line is active. The artist skilfully combines expressive and dynamic principles with a tendency to rhythmic play with lines and a unifying of images.