Pysanky (Easter eggs) 

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PYSANKA FROM KOLOMYJA AREA 

Pysanka is divided into 8 parts by white lines. The main motive - "violets" - is placed on a brown background. Between them - triangle motives.  

Colours - brown, red, white, yellow. 

Egg (or wooden base), painting.

 Pysanky (Easter eggs) - is one of the brightest and the most enigmatic manifestations of the talent and profundity of memory of ukrainian people. 

The tradition of easter eggs painting takes its beginning since pagan times. Depending on the regions there are some differences in the pattern of picture, color scheme, division of the surface of the egg.

Numeruos crosses and crossings symbolized fertility, rings and lines assosiated with the feminine and musculine origin in our ancestor's mind. Colour palette reflected surrounding nature: water, the Sun, forests, fields, meadows.

Our ancestors truly believed that a house where was a sacrificed pysanka, was protected from evil and the lightning wouldn't strike it. Till nowadays we cannot but admire the magic of this art coded in pysanky's ornament.

PYSANKY FROM KOSIV AREA        (Sheshory village) 

Painted with black colour and white lines, that divides pysanka into several parts: in horisontaly centered squares there are 4 stylized leaves, between squares - curved figures. At the top and at the bottom there are bands from little rhombs, crosses, stars. Ends of the pysanka are decorated with flowers.   

Colours - red, yellow, green, white. 

Egg (or wooden base), painting.

Main colour of this painting is black. The pysanka is divided by white lines into several parts, filled in with geometric ornament: crosses, rhombs, lines. Around of the center - wide band from rhombs, filled in with stylized flowers.  

Colours - yellow, red, white, green.  

Egg (or wooden base), painting.

PYSANKY FROM POKUTTYA

PYSANKY FROM ROGATYN

PYSANKY FROM KOSMACH