About The Artist

Petro Hrytsyuk was born on November 7, 1979 in the village of Mykulychyn, in the Yaremchan region, Ivano-Frankivsk region. He is a lawyer by profession, in his spare time he is engaged in artistic creation, writes poems. He held a number of personal exhibitions, both in Ukraine and abroad (Greece, Canada, Hungary, Romania), a participant in all-Ukrainian and regional exhibitions. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Laureate of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Prize named after Yaroslav Lukavetsky in the field of fine arts, laureate of the Mykola Domashevsky Prize in the field of literature and art. Honorary citizen of the village of Mykulychyna. Participant and partner of the "Portal of Independent Artists", a member of the literary and artistic association "Zgarda" and the association of artists "Art Brotherhood". The author and organizer of creative activities of the all-Ukrainian patriotic art project "We have one destiny - her name is Ukraine". A significant part of the artist's works of art is combined in the exhibition "On the Edges of Contradictions" (2013-2016), "Stanislaviv & Halychyna" (2015-2020), he is working on the creation of a series of works "Philosophy of Color" and "Winged Planet". Graphic works are created in the author's style, which is called "Graphic craquelure". According to the artist's own definition, graphic craquelure is a style of graphics characterized by the predominance of curved lines, which together create the illusion of cracks (craquelures). The artist's creative concept is based on simple, understandable things by popularizing well-known values and possessions in an artistic way of representation, so that there is an opportunity to think, to think, to draw some conclusions. At the same time, the goal of ambiguous interpretation of the content is pursued.