London, Europe Brief News – Art was a beautiful and powerful tool to highlight the bitterness of war worldwide.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many artists have posted their art work about the war in Ukraine.
An artist in Crimea has created a guerilla art project to highlight the close interpersonal connections between people in the region and Ukraine.
Crimea was illegally annexed in 2014 by Russian-backed forces.
Antik Danov – a pseudonym the artist uses – has curated handwritten posters with messages that could be from everyday Crimea residents.
“I have a mother in Ukraine. Alexy, 19” says one of the posters, with text that drips down the paper like tears.
“I have love in Ukraine. Oksana, 23” says another. “I have a sister in Ukraine. Roman, 10 years old.”
Street artist Steve “Jenks” Jenkins said he felt he could not do much thousands of miles away in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, but “putting a bit of paint on a wall might show support”.
“It’s a great way of getting messages across to people,” he said.
“And you can take something in for a blink of an eye and it makes you think and awakens things inside you.
“It’s a powerful tool to use.”
Pop artist Nathan Wyburn, from Ebbw Vale, said: “Art, not just documents the time, but also it can help convey a message, sometimes, that words can’t.”
Art historian Joanna Burke, of Birkbeck, University of London, said artists “have a powerful way of communicating, much more powerful than news broadcasts”.
