Exhibition view

The term “non-conformism” generally embraces virtually all the art in the former Soviet Union which did not conform to the state dogma of Socialist Realism decreed by Stalin and ruthlessly enforced by the authorities. Although Stalin died in 1953, even after that time artists were still supposed to adhere to its portrayal of the Soviet Union as a socialist paradise and reject any other styles, particularly from the West.
Ludmila Yastreb vas the leader, the "generator" of the aesthetic ideas, which were settled by all nonconformist painters of Odessa. The highest assessment criterion of a piece of art of Odessa's underground was sophistication of the artistic language, originality of the composition, color and light expressiveness. The artist took an active part in the unofficial, so called "apartment exhibitions" in the 1970s in Odessa.
Lyudmila demonstrated experiments with light and transformation of the form. Ludmila Yastreb revisited the Cubo-Futurist innovators of the 1920s in her abstract compositions made during the 1970s and 1980s.

LUDMYLA YASTREB
1945, Kvasnykivka village of Saratov region (Russia) – 1980, Odesa
A painter and graphic artist
She finished M.B. Grekov Odessa State Art College under the lead of
L. Tokarieva-Oleksandrovych and D. Frumina.
A participant of non-sanctioned exhibitions in private apartments in Odesa, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg
She was a “generator” of aesthetic ideas for Odesa non-conformists.
1969     -  a participant of private, republican, All-Union, and international exhibitions
1969 - 1980  -  worked in painting and graphics, accomplished several monumental works
1983, 1996  - posthumous monographic exhibitions of Ludmyla Yastreb took place in Odesa. 
Works of L. Yastreb belong to the collections of Odesa Art Museum, Odesa Literature Museum, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, private collections of Ukraine, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Italy, Russia.

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