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.
Karlo Zvirynskyi decomposes the world into geometric plastic forms, into peculiar signs of the object world. Using the method of synthetic cubism, he creates his own reality as a way to separate himself from the external and explore the world introspectively. In his artistic language, he looks up to the best avant-garde masters and combines their achievements with national stylistics, which can be traced in the choice of color, organization of rhythm, and the balance of all components.
