Jacques Hnizdovsky's 1915- 1985 was aUkrainian artist whose work has an incredible order and symmetry. He worked mainly in woodcuts, but did use other mediums.
" One day, on a train, I watched the forest approach the train, then race alongside it in an exhausting dash. I examined the order of the trees which, under the effect of movement, changed their arrangement and shape in an orderly manner. I thought to myself that if one could explore this order, one could reproduce the image of movement ."
In the summer of 1949, like thousands of Ukrainians in those post-war years scattered throughout Europe and unwilling to return to Soviet Ukraine, the artist left for the United States of America:
" It became irrelevant to me where I live. I learned to have no more desires ."
"Freedom has no insurance policy."
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