Jaroslava Korol
Jaroslava Korol (1954–2009, ), née Kosar () was a Ukrainian painter. Genre – painter, sacred art. Biography. Jaroslava Korol was born on June 25, 1954 in Plavie, Skole Raion), Lviv Oblast. She was born in the family of the priest Anton and Maria. After graduation from high school in 1971 with a gold medal, she enrolled at the Department of Art Pottery at Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (1972-1977). From 1977 she lived in Lviv and worked as a graphic designer. Since the late of the eighties of the 20th century she started an interesting period of  searching creative identities. This is area of religious and historical painting, symbolic and of allegorical compositions. She died after a long illness July 10, 2009 and was buried at the Cemetery of village Malekhiv. Artworks. The eternal problem of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, grand and comic, true and evil embodied in works of art Ya.Korol. Direction - symbolic - allegorical subject compositions. Among them: "Svyatyy Mykolay" (St. Nicholas), cardboard, oil, 60х42 cm, 2009; "Schaslyvoyi dorohy" (Have a nice trip), oil on canvas, 30х60 cm, 2008; "Hratsiyi" (Graces), oil on canvas, 50х50 cm, 2007; "Spas v sylah" (Feast of the  Transfiguration in forces), cardboard, oil, 110х50 cm, 2000; "Heorhiy Peremozhets" (Saint George the Victorious), oil on canvas, 120x90 cm, 2003. The artist at his work is inclined to realize themselves, and up to of philosophizing. This can be seen in such works: "Gra v karty" (The Card Play), "Zamkova shparynka" (Keyhole), "Chorna maska" (The Black Mask), "Rankovyy tuman" (Morning Mist) (2007). A special place in the work of the artist is the theme of the birth of Christ and Our Lady, characteristic of sacred art it always reflects the spiritual, moral, aesthetic values and society of his time, by giving  special status to the cost of holiness. Latitude her of creative interests impressive. She depicts not only religious icons, but also the paintings on historical and literary topics. Yaroslava Korol was among the personalities, who worked on cultural artistic era of art in Lviv in the second half of the 20th century. Her artworks are kept in museums, churches and private collections in Ukraine, Italy, UK, France and Canada.