Ukrainian Exhibition in Washington D.C.
Maria Sverstiuk
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Visitors' Center presents an exhibition
"Ukraine: Images from 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.". The exhibition will be on
display from July 29 to September 17, 1993.
There is a short description:
The exhibition consists of 200 archaeological items of historical and
artistic value of the Trypillian culture -- one of the most important
Eurasian cultures in the ancient agricultural world and 50 contemporary
drawings and paintings influenced by this ancient culture in Ukraine. The
Trypillian world appeared when, from Carpathians in the west to the Dnipro
in the east, the Brazen Age emerged -- a time when people began to eat
bread and melt metal(copper). Now, on Ukrainian territory, approximately
2,000 Trypillian settlements and sepulchral mounds are known to exist.
At the beginning of the Brazen Age hoeing gave way to ploughing,
and agricultural productivity increased. Trypillians cultivated on their
feilds solid wheat, barley, pea and millet. On Ukrainian lands, Trypillian
were the first to make clothes from patterned textiles, which were woven
on vertical looms. As a result of excavations, numerous imprints on clay
of various patterned textiles have been discovered. One of them was found
by V.Krutz near Kazarovitchy on the Dnipro. Trypillians had a
well-developed sign system. Combination of separate signs in Trypillian
paintings made it possible to write down ornamentally long texts.
Archaeologists have found thousands of anthropomorphic clay
statuettes -- mainly portrayals of women and mothers -- which were
used in rituals. These statuettes, which are on exhibit, were made of clay
with a mixture of flour. When searching after the roots of the population,
who lived on Ukrainian lands, one inevitably begins to think of the
Trypillians were contributors to the development of European civilization,
and together with other people who lived there during this period made a
valuable contribution to contemporary Ukrainian culture.
The exhibition, organized in cooperation with the Ukrainian
Society for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage and the
Center of the Study of Historical Monuments under the Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine, is presented by the Embassy of Ukraine and sponsored by the
Christina Czorpita Gallery in Philadelphia.
The IMF Visitor's Center is located:
700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431
Program information: (202) 623-4900
Telephone (202) 623-6869
FAX (202) 623-6562
Bookstore (202) 623-7430
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Maria Sverstiuk <sver...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
Drexel University
College of Information Studies
Philadelphia, PA
Maria Sverstiuk <sver...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
Drexel University
College of Information Studies
Philadelphia, PA