Oleksa Bakhmatiuk

Oleksa Bakhmatiuk (; 10 December 1820, Kosiv, now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast – 15 March 1882, there too ) was a Ukrainian master of decorative tile painting.

At the Kolomyia Industrial Exhibition in 1880, where Oleksa Bakhmatiuk works were displayed, he received a gold award.

Plots and creative style In the depiction of people, Bakhmatiuk developed a special manner, a certain canon. All of them are clearly typified. The figures, as a rule, stand in profile. Women—whether urban or Hutsul—are dressed in blouses and long skirts. Men are in short attire (only the depiction of the head changes: sometimes it is bare, sometimes it has a top hat (tsylindr) on it, sometimes a Hutsul klepania). The world of flora and fauna is widely represented by the master. Here, a flower that resembles a sunflower stands out—multi-petaled with a wide, hatched (cross-hatched/shaded) middle. There are depictions of beasts and birds—deer, bulls, lions, and luxurious peacocks and roosters. and Lviv has been named in honor of Oleksa Bakhmatiuk.