Nicholas Shmatko, Ukrainian sculptor
 

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"Sviatohirsk Virgin" (Koelginsky marble 1,50 x1, 50x4, 20) is located in Svyatogorsk Laurels

The Italian and Ural marble - a marble sculpture. Author's collection of sculptures (marble) has no analogues in the world and demonstrates the incredible advances in the processing of marble, the human imagination and thought embodied the rock.

Throughout his career created without government support and sponsors more than 750 monuments (bas-relief, high relief, sculpture) and about 500 paintings. Author's collection, exhibited in his gallery "Shmatko and Sons" and has no analogues in the world, has more than 70 sculptures from the Ural and Italian marble and some 300 paintings (paintings, graphics).

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about his work Nikolay Gavrilivich says so: «I have never walked none on occasion, made no political orders. Do not descend to flattery, lies, and always do only what tells the heart, so in disgrace in power. So going to move abroad. "

Personal site of sculptor Shmatko