caption movement death_date death_place birth_place imagesize training nationality awards birth_date works image article_title name bgcolour
michael kmit in 1975 neo-byzantine , cubism , constructivism 22 may 1981 sydney , australia stryi ukraine -rrb- , kingdom of galicia and lodomeria -lrb- now 250px kraków academy of fine arts ukrainian australian blake 1957 and 1970 -rrb- prize -lrb- 1954 -rrb- , sulman prize -lrb- 25 july 1910 '' , philopena '' evangelist john mark , the voice of silence michael kmit -lrb- 1975 -rrb- . jpg michael kmit
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michael kmit

michael kmit -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 25 july 1910 , stryi , -- 22 may 1981 sydney , australia -rrb- was a ukrainian painter who spent twenty-five years in australia .
he is notable for introducing a neo-byzantine style of painting to australia , and winning a number of major australian art prizes including the blake prize -lrb- 1952 -rrb- and the sulman prize -lrb- in both 1957 and 1970 -rrb- .
in 1969 the australian artist and art critic james gleeson described kmit as `` one of the most sumptuous colourists of our time '' .
