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Kost Lavro (born in 1961 near Poltava) is a Ukrainian artist and illustrator. [1] [2] [3] He is a close collaborator with the poet and publisher Ivan Malkovych.
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Kost Lavro (born in 1961 near Poltava) is a Ukrainian artist and illustrator. [1] [2] [3] He is a close collaborator with the poet and publisher Ivan Malkovych.
Kost Lavro was Born on March 11, 1961 near Dikanka (now Poltava region, Ukraine).
Lavro studied art early at the Shevchenko State Art School (his classmates there included Alina Panova, Roman Turovsky and Yuri Makoveychuk) and the Kyiv Polygraphic Institute. He graduated from the Faculty of Book Design of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing. He is a Member of the National Union of Artists or Ukraine.
In his works, he combined the fundamental tenets of the Ukrainian avant-garde of the 1920s with the typical features of Ukrainian folk painting. Kost Lavro’s works were repeatedly included in the catalogues of children’s book exhibitions in Bologna, Bratislava, and the like.
In addition to “A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-gi”, he collaborates with the Ukrainian publishing house “Smart Child” and the popular French children’s magazine “Pomme d’Api”.
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Kost or KOST may refer to:
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