Traditional Art?

[holland]

Is there any traditional Ukrainian art still practiced today? Something that you still do in your home and have (or plan to) pass along to new generations?

I still do pysanky and no saddly I have not gotten any better over the years but I enjoy it all the same! So anyway... I'm looking forward to reading all about your traditions and art!

[hanja-be]

Hi Holland,

I live in Belgium and do pysanky - embroidery.
Have a brother who paints a lot.
Have passed pysanky to my brothers children and they make very nice pysanky.
the only bad thing is when we need dyes and other things we have to purchase them in Canada or USA.

bye have a nice day.

Hanja

[Zbyszek]

Originally posted by hanja-be


I live in Belgium and do pysanky - embroidery.
Have a brother who paints a lot.
Have passed pysanky to my brothers children and they make very nice pysanky.
the only bad thing is when we need dyes and other things we have to purchase them in Canada or USA.

bye have a nice day.

Hanja

Hi Hanja and Holland,

Nice to know that pisanki are painted by Ukrainians also. The art of painting them is still very popular in Poland and I know some villages in my country where you could easily see village people in action.
Any dyes and other things can easily be bought in Poland.
I could provide some more information if you like.

I'd like to say that the Dutch people are a pattern of tolerance and positive thinking for all Europe.

[hanja-be]

Zsbyszek,
Here some information about belgiun
in belgium we speak three languages
dutch - french - german
if you will speak here in belgium about dutch people they will say oh, people of Holland(Netherlands) and still - the language maybe the same but you cannot compare the two with each other.
Tolerance and positive thinking - could be that they have learned a little bit - because of Brussels the capital of Europe - and all the different nationalities that lives here in such a little country like belgium and still no w..
In my street alone we are with 10 different nationalities sometime it goes and sometimes not depends what the theme is.
Pysanky - I know that you can find them in Poland but as I hear from polish people here - mostly they had krashanky in Poland. But like I say always culture for once has no borders and therefore you can find Pysanky too in the countries that have there borders with Ukraine, mostly you can recognize on the patterns from were in Ukraine they are and these patterns from the border you can find easily in the neighbouring countries.
So once I met a Roumanian woman on a exhibition and she was doing Pysanky - but knowing the patterns we use I saw that colours and patterns were typicall for Ukraine, so I asked her were she learned it - and it came out that she learned it in a school in Ukraine.
bye have to back to work.
Hanja

[Zbyszek]

Hanja, thank you for your explanations.
Using the term "Dutch people" I meant only residents of the Netherlands. Am I wrong? I know that Dutch (Nederlands) is also spoken in the north of Belgium. I did not know much about Belgium. I know much more about Holland and this country fares better than Belgium as far as I know.
I can not tell the pisanki from the krashanki.
Hanja, I agree that culture knows no borders.
Have you read my recent contributions "Power of the printed words"(thread title: Ukraine-Poland) and "A proposal from Warsaw"(thread title: Lwow) in History tab?
Regards

[Edited by Zbyszek on 2nd October 2002 at 16:16]

[hanja-be]

Zbyszek,

Have read your contributions and will try to answer this weekend as I am on this moment very busy.

I just wanted to point out the difference between netherland and belgium and also if you say dutch people although the languange is dutch we here in belgium call it flemish - it is spoken in the north and in the south french is spoken.
The flemish people are very strickt in calling themself belgiums and not dutch people - normally I take this example to explain the differences between russia - ukraine - Poland. And here even we do not have the same language.

bye

Hanja

[holland]

uh oh, I think I should change my name! I was too lazy to think of a cool name so I picked Holland having just returned from there (I'm a Canadian w/ Ukrainian Parentage). I have been back a couple times and I love everything about the Netherlands. I love the food, the culture, the people, the mix of French in the South. The people are, in my opinion, soft yet wild, edgey yet traditional, its an old world meets new world and a gateway to the world. If I could learn another language I might move there for a while. I love to travel! It's my favourite hobby in the world. Just thinking about traveling makes me want to pack my bags. Especially now while I sit in my office at my desk... ah life! Okay I digress...

Zbyszek are you in Poland? I would love to visit there some day.

Hanja you sound like a very cool person. I always have to say Canada is much more different than the USA to a lot of my friends who live out of country.

Sorry for the confusion, I'm going to think of a new name... but it has to be interesting!