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“The house was shaking, and the windows in the workshop shattered, while it was 18 degrees below zero outside…”
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, People’s Artist of Ukraine Viktor Kovtun has painted more than 200 paintings from the Kharkiv Chronicles series. In the first days of the war, Viktor sent his wife to Germany, while he stayed in the city. He covered the windows of his workshop, blown out by the blast wave, with plastic film and continued to work. The artist visited the sites of incoming air strikes, took some photographs of the consequences, and then painted his pictures showing how the city lived under air strikes... The fact that there were no artist paints in the shops, and that he had to go through 15 checkpoints to get a canvas stretcher did not stop him either...
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