Oleksa Shatkivsky

After that since 1931 he continued education at the Warsaw School of Applied Arts from Tadeusz Pruszkowski (received 14 awards for painting and graphics),[3] and Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw (class of Władysław Skoczylas and Leon Wyczółkowski).

Alongside his main themes – lyrical landscapes, still lifes, predominantly flowers – he turned to depicting portraits of Ukrainian cultural classics, historical figures and folk customs.

[2][4] In addition to his surname "Shatkivsky," he also used "Smikh-Shatkivsky", associated with the ancient Smikh family – owners of estates near Pochaiv.

[2][3][4] Shatkivsky's creativity is marked by features of impressionism and belongs to the post-impressionism movement that emerged in the 1880s.

Artists of this movement sought visual impressions and aimed to convey the materiality of the world freely and abstractly, resorting to decorative stylization.