The Museum of Taras Shevchenko, the leading institution of Ukraine and the world in Shevchenko studies, preserves a significant part of the artistic heritage of T. G. Shevchenko, which is part of the golden fund of Ukrainian culture.
Studying and recreating the historical picture of the era in which the artist lived and worked, a comprehensive study of the artist’s personality, his life and career will allow building a center for the development of contemporary Ukrainian culture around Shevchenko’s figure as the greatest moral authority for all Ukrainians.
He is called the Ukrainian Rembrandt, and in a creative manner they see the similarities with the peculiarities of the painting of Gauguin, Delacroix, Van Gogh, according to the level of his attempts in sculpture, he was not inferior to Rodin. The poet of the whole nation in the course of several centuries and an outstanding figure in the historical and cultural process of Ukraine, an example for imitation for many generations. A painter, a master of etching and graphics, a writer and poet, illustrator, a talented representative of the epistolary genre, in addition to everything he was a man of broad views, a philosopher and a luminaire. We offer interesting facts and unknown works of Shevchenko-painter.