Alexander Bogomazov or Oleksandr Bohomazov was a Ukrainian painter, known artist and modern art theoretician of the Russian Avant-garde. In 1914, Alexander wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements. In it he analyzed the interaction between Object, Artist, Picture, and Spectator and sets the theoretical foundation of modern art. During his artistic life Alexander Bogomazov mastered several art styles. The most known are Cubo-Futurism (1913–1917) and Spectralism (1920–1930).
Jewellery as an art form originated as an expression of human culture. Body ornamentation, one purpose of jewellery, has been known since at least the Stone Age. The history of jewellery in Ukraine reflects the influence of many cultures and peoples who have occupied the territory in the past and present.
Oleksandr Yevhenovych Rybka is a Ukrainian football goalkeeper who plays for Sabail FK.
Ukraine has had an influence on the history of the cinema. Prominent Ukrainian directors include Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Dziga Vertov and Serhiy Paradzhanov. Dovzhenko is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory and founding Dovzhenko Film Studios. In 1927 Dziga Vertov moved from Moscow to Ukraine. At the film studio VUFKU he made several avant-garde documentaries, among them «The Eleventh Year», «Man with a Movie Camera» and first Ukrainian documentary sound film «Enthusiasm ». Paradzhanov was an Armenian film director and artist who made significant contributions to Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema; he invented his own cinematic style, Ukrainian poetic cinema, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism.
PinchukArtCentre is a centre of contemporary art, located in Kyiv with a collection of works by Ukranian and international artists. The museum was opened on 16 September 2006 by the steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk.
Taras Voznyak – Ukrainian culture expert, political scientist, editor-in-chief and founder of Independent Cultural Journal "Ї", director of the Lviv National Art Gallery.
Alexander (Oleksandr) Voytovych is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. Figurative painting characterizes the majority of his work, and portrait and naked model painting are two main themes of his art.
Oleksandr Skotsen' was a Polish-Canadian footballer of Ukrainian heritage, he played for Tryzub Lviv, Ukraina Lviv, Dynamo Kyiv, Olympique Charleroi and OGC Nice. In 1950 he arrived in Canada, where he played for Ukrainian teams Toronto Ukrainians and Toronto Tryzub.
Oleksandr Ryabokon is a former Ukrainian football defender, and currently the head-coach of FC Desna Chernihiv in the Ukrainian First League.
Svetlana Viktorivna Ischenko — poet, translator, stage actress, teacher, artist. She is a member of The Ukrainian Writers’ Association (1997) and The National Writers' Union of Ukraine (1998).
Biruchiy contemporary art project is a leading residence of contemporary art in Ukraine. It was founded in 2006 by the civic organization Association of Contemporary Art Researchers. The project is held annually in May and September on the Byriuchyi Island, located in the Azov Sea. Since 2015, its geography has expanded to other regions of Ukraine. Since 2016, the on-site residence has been working in the European Union territory (Poland). Thirteen seasons of Biruchiy contemporary art project were attended by 208 artists and 11 art groups from 16 countries. Since 2014, a part of participants goes to Italy, since 2017 — to the United States.
Victor Mykolayovych Deysun is a Ukrainian abstract expressionist painter.
Oleksandr (Alex) Danyliuk is Ukrainian politician. He was Ukraine's finance minister in the government of Volodymyr Groysman (2016-2018). He was dismissed on 7 June 2018 after a conflict with Groysman.
Oleksandr Onyshchenko is a Ukrainian politician, show jumping rider and patron, and philanthropist. In summer of 2016 Onyshchenko fled Ukraine after the General Prosecutor Office expressed its suspicion in corruption against and had intent to arrest him. Moreover, in December 2016 the Security Service of Ukraine is suspecting him in treason.
Oleksandr Petrovych Livik born on June 30, 1970, Mykolaiv Ukrainian SSR — Ukrainian politician, People’s deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation
Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko is a Ukrainian filmmaker, poet, photographer, translator, and musician. Co-founder of "OFF Laboratory" production studio.
Dmytro Dmytrovych Kremin -- Ukrainian poet, journalist, translator and scholar. Kremin was one of the awardees of The Taras Shevchenko National Literary Prize in 1999, for the book of poems called Pectoral.
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Zholobetskyi — a Ukrainian social-politic leader and statesman, an entrepreneur, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIIIth convocation.
Fauxbergé is an ironic term coined to generally describe items that are faking a higher quality or status and in specific terms seem to relate to the House of Fabergé which is a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, by Gustav Fabergé. The term was first mentioned by auctioneer and Fabergé book author Dr. Geza von Habsburg in his article Fabergé in America. Today the term is a part of the expertise vocabulary in the vast and popular field of Fabergé products. It is even used in a recent museum show only about Fauxbergé items. The terms mainly refers to items that are exact copies or replicas of historical Fabergé products of the time period between 1842 and 1918. Fauxbergé jewelry started to show up on the market as soon as the Fabergé brand became a house hold name in the European aristocratic circles. After the second world war the trade of Fabergé products from communist Russia and other eastern block countries picked up and prices started to rise again. While an imperial easter egg auctioned in the 1930s for around 500 US Dollars it sold at auction for several million US Dollars after 1945. Direct copies and designs that look like Fabergé originals flooded the market.
Fabergé did not entirely invent his own style but he himself copied historical pieces from European museum collections. It became a big business to erase marking stamps of historical or contemporary jewelry, silver and carved stones and place a false Fabergé stamp copy into the objects. Habsburg points out that an expert can see the difference between Carl Fabergé designed objects and fakes by simply looking at them.
The production of Fabergé objects around 1900 poured out a much vaster number of pieces than the popular perception. the reason for this being that imperial Fabergé Egges are actually limited to 54 pieces, while general Fabergé objects and jewelry items could exist in high numbers. It is estimated that the Fabergé company produced over a half a million products between 1842 and 1917. With over 500 craftsmen and designers in their employment, Carl Fabergé produced over 200,000 objects between 1882 and 1917. In its time Fabergé had been the most recognized and most highly valued jewelry brand in the world, surpassing Cartier and others by far. Today the big collections in Museums and private shows have Fauxbergé pieces in them and they in return are now considered curiosities. While the other famous jewelry brands are struggling to divide their market into originals and fakes the Fabergé non-brand of the second half of the 20th century enjoyed a collectors high of anything resembling Fabergé with the brand name attached to it or even without.
In comparison, Fauxcartier objects do exist but these copies of the well known jeweler Cartier are not sought after or shown in exhibitions on purpose. Not all Fabergé items are protected by copyright law and especially collectors who own one of a kind creations are legally allowed to reproduce and sell such objects. Many museum stores offer replicas of their Fabergé objects from their collections. Carl Fabergé had may stores and shops and employed many freelance designers and jewelers. He had many so-called work masters who worked entirely independent from his business out of their own shops. These work masters kept producing their own objects with similar styles and these could have been stamped with false stamps in the succeeding years as well. Cartier and Tiffany's started to sell very similar frames and objects as Carl Fabergé and even bought from the same sources. Especially the stone sculptures which are never stamped or engraved can be mistaken for Fabergé originals. According to Habsburg a sure way to sort out fakes is that Carl Fabergé always used a maximum of two stamps and that most copies show more than two stamps.https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/20/nyregion/about-new-york-imperial-gems-for-viewing-and-devouring.html Although Fauxbergé objects are frowned upon by experts they do enjoy a very high popularity and are often sold, collected and exhibited side by side with authentic Fabergé objects.https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/9/virginia-museum-fine-arts-displays-faberge-treasur/ The reason for the popularity of the replicas and false objects is that today they fall in the category of art rather than jewelry.
