Liudmyla Zhogol

Liudmyla Zhogol studied at Lviv National Academy of Arts. Stanislav Antonovich Antonuk is recorded as having studied under Liudmyla Zhogol. The recorded working language is Russian and Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is visual arts, applied arts and gobelin. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are tapestry. Employment is recorded with Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative-Applied Arts and Design. Distinctions recorded are Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class, People's Painter of Ukraine and Order of Princess Olga, 2nd class.

Liudmyla Zhogol was born on 23 May 1930 in Kyiv. She studied art at the Lviv Institute of Decorative Arts. Her teachers were Yosyp Bokshay, Vitold Monastyrsky, Roman Selsky, and others.

In the 1980s, Zhogol became the chairman of the Union of Artists of the USSR. The position allowed her to travel to Western Europe and the world. Zhogol visited France, Italy, Norway, Lebanon, Egypt, Cuba, Sweden, and Denmark. For several years Zhogol was a teacher and headed the ceramics department at the Academy of Architecture. Later, she ran the Department of Art Textiles and Costume Modeling at the Mykhailo Boychuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design. From 1978 to 2011, twenty-three personal exhibitions of the artist took place. The most important contribution of Zhogol to the development of Ukrainian art in the second half of the XX - early XXI century is a system of synthetic interaction of architectural interior and artistic fabric developed by her. Zhogol worked as a theorist of fine and decorative arts. Zhogol is the author of books and more than 100 articles on the synthesis of the arts.

Zhogol created a sketch for each future tapestry. Then she made cardboard in the size of the future work. The master's works were made by hand at the Reshetylivka Art Factory. The central theme of the artist's works was floral tapestries. Zhogol worked in the liquid technique of tapestries - Montfleur. Zhogol's works decorate the interiors of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Accounting Chamber, the Kyiv City Council, the Embassies of Ukraine in Greece, Austria, Brazil, the Kyiv Cinema House, hotels Kyiv, Rus, Dnipro, other official and public institutions and stored in many museums in Ukraine and other countries, such as Italy, France, and Norway. Zhogol’s works are exhibited at exhibitions of contemporary Ukrainian art. National Folk Decorative Art Museum houses the largest and most important collection (over 100 items) of works by Lyudmila Zhogol.

Liudmyla Zhogol had a son who was an architect and died in a car accident in 2014.

• How can you not love such a land (from the Chernobyl series). • Bitter color of wormwood (from the Chernobyl series). • And there will be life (from the Chernobyl series). • My flower is a thistle. • The last time I flew up, my wings were damaged by that Chernobyl. • Dedication of Bilokur. • Eternal Fire.

Liudmyla Zhogol is recorded with the occupation tapestry weaver. Recorded with the occupation textile artist. Classed in the genre tapestry. Recorded as having received Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class, People's Painter of Ukraine and Order of Princess Olga, 2nd class.