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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Kyiv. Photography by Alessio Mamo

The artists of Ukraine find their voice in a cry of resistance

Kinder Album with her painting, Yesterday Lviv rocked by powerful explosion.
Kinder Album with her painting, Yesterday Lviv rocked by powerful explosion. Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian

More than 200 years after Francisco Goya commemorated Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies in The Third of May 1808, his groundbreaking work on the horrors of war, Ukrainian painters, illustrators and cartoonists are trying to find an artistic expression as Russian bombs fall on their country.

Like other Ukrainians, many artists had to abandon their homes – and their work – when war broke out.

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