Alexis Gritchenko

Ukrainian artist

Also known as: Oleksa Hryshchenko

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Alexis Gritchenko, also known as Oleksa Hryshchenko, was a Ukrainian artist who began his career exploring Cubism before transitioning to a dynamic style of Expressionism. He was among the artists whose work reflected the avant-garde trends that emerged during the brief renewal of Ukrainian independence in 1918. Gritchenko, along with other artists, was suppressed by Soviet authorities in the 1930s when Socialist Realism became the only officially permitted style. He later gained recognition in the West for his artistic contributions.1

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…in the West, among them Gritchenko, who began with Cubism and then turned to a dynamic form of Expressionism, and the painter and engraver Jacques Hnizdovsky, who developed a simplified style of realism. The sculptor Alexander Archipenko (Ukrainian: Oleksander Arkhypenko), one of the pioneers of Cubism who later experimented in…
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…in the West, among them Gritchenko, who began with Cubism and then turned to a dynamic form of Expressionism, and the painter and engraver Jacques Hnizdovsky, who developed a simplified style of realism. The sculptor Alexander Archipenko (Ukrainian: Oleksander Arkhypenko), one of the pioneers of Cubism who later experimented in…
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