An online themed exhibition “You Fight – You Win!” An Image of Kobza Player in the Works of Amateur Artist Viktor Shulha” to the 160th anniversary of the death of Taras Shevchenko is displayed within the events to the 100th anniversary of the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of 45 paintings and graphic works by Viktor Shulha. The works were transmitted by the author to the collection of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum in 2000. These are the themed series – “Life path of Taras” and “Visiting Shevchenko’s Places” created by the artist in the 1960s – 2000s. Watercolors, drawings, and paintings reveal the personal perception of the image of an artist, poet, and philosopher Taras Shevchenko.
    Shulha Viktor Andriiovych (1923-2000) – a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, World War II, Veteran of Labor. Was born in the town of Novomyrhorod, the Kirovohrad Oblast. Studied at Odesa Art College. Worked in Novomyrhorod district newspaper “Chervona Zirka”, his articles were published in the journals “Zhovten”, “Dnipro”, “Kurier Kryvbasu”. A participant in numerous exhibitions of amateur visual art. In 1971 In Kyiv in the House of Artists, his personal exhibition of watercolors was displayed. The majority of works were dedicated to the topics related to Shevchenko.
    The first Viktor Shulha’s acquaintance with Shevchenko’s places in the Cherkasy Oblast took place in the middle of the 1960s. After visiting the museum of Taras Shevchenko, Viktor Shulha made a lot of sketches of the memorial spots and future watercolors. In 1971, he went to the House of Creative Work in Sedniv, the Chernihiv Oblast. Viktor Shulha created the whole series of watercolor works “Visiting Shevchenko’s Places”, as well as many graphic works and paintings were dedicated to the Poet’s fate, important events in his life, combining them into the series “Life path of Taras”.