Karlo Zvirynskyi was a famous artist and reformer of art education in Lviv. From 1959 to 1966, he organized an underground art academy based on reviving modernist artistic practices. During the reign of socialist realism, Zvirynskyi was perhaps the only one who returned the "art of progress" to art education. In his works, he developed the idea of a syncretic world. He created tactile abstraction using various materials based on subconscious sensitivity and prayerful meditation. The artist's works are kept in museums in Lviv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Wroclaw, New York, and Toronto, as well as in many private collections.
Monotype is a method of engraving that, unlike other examples of graphics, allows you to get only one unique print, the final result of which is always unpredictable because it is performed spontaneously without a preliminary sketch. The work "Reflections VIII" is equally unconscious, drawn in the style of "hermetic art" and embodying the artist's experiences, his conversation with himself, and an attempt to comprehend his feelings and thoughts.
