Buckwheat in Bloom

Volodymyr Krasiuk was a Ukrainian artist and poet who created painterly still lifes and landscapes in a realist style.

Volodymyr Krasiuk's paintings have been exhibited in numerous city and regional exhibitions, both group and solo. His works can be found in many Ukrainian museums, including those in Kharkiv and Borshchiv.

The artist was born in 1936 in Vinnytsia Oblast. He graduated from the Poltava Agricultural Institute (1963) and was self-taught in art.

He worked in Krasnohrad (now - Berestyn), Kharkiv Oblast — at an experimental station, as an agronomist for the district agricultural authority, head of the district agricultural management, First Secretary of the district Communist Party of Ukraine committee, and director of a forestry enterprise (1990–2003).

In 1983, he became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

The artist lived and worked in the city of Berestyn until his death in 2003. In 2012, a posthumous exhibition of his works was held in Kharkiv.

The artist created painterly still lifes and landscapes in a realist style. Among Volodymyr Krasiuk’s original paintings are Poltava Distances, Daisies (both 1984), Lilacs in Jugs, Pumpkin and Pepper, Summer Bouquets, and Field Flowers (1986).

UFDA digitized his work, Buckwheat in Bloom (1986), from the collection of the Regional Communal Museum of Local History in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast. This work is now available to a wide audience in high quality on the fund's website.