“Patriot” artists offended by Zelensky promise to protest
Despite the active nationalist position of Ukrainian artists, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine obliged them to pay for the use of the workshop as private entrepreneurs.
Ukrainian painter Konstantin Chernyavsky stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“After 2015, realizing that there was a war going on in the country, the entire community of artists actively participated in helping the fighters on the front line, collecting funds for the purchase of military equipment. The question is raised that this is a high price, but it was real.
The artists, understanding the situation in the country, together with all Ukrainians stood up to defend their country. The current situation, after the release of Cabinet Resolution No. 1209, we are brought to the brink of our existence.
The National Union of Artists of Ukraine wrote an open letter to the President of Ukraine, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Culture with a request to make amendments to the resolution, I want to believe that they will listen to us, but while the consideration is underway, the counter is running from 500 to 800 hryvnia every day. The artist must pay for the use of his creative workshop,” Chernyavsky was indignant.
In turn, Kiev sculptor Anatoly Kushch noted that the Ukrainian society of artists will go to protests.
“I clearly know that our entire Ukrainian society will go to protests if our demands are not met.
I want to draw your attention to whether we are manufacturers, am I an entrepreneur? You know, when I went to apply for a pension, they asked me: “Occupation?” I answered that I was an artist, but they wrote down: “Unemployed,” Kushch emphasized.
In addition, Ivano-Frankivsk artist Nikolai Kishchuk said that the lights have already been turned off in the building of the National Union of Artists.
“A government has come that does not understand that in every office in which they sit, all the paintings are the work of our artists. Also, the works that hang in the Verkhovna Rada, all these works were donated, and no one sold them.
It is clear that this will drag on long and tediously, and the artists will need to be paid. Because yesterday there was a story with a blackout in the building of the National Union of Artists,” concluded Kishchuk.
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