Oleh Minko is a Ukrainian nonconformist artist representing "hermetic" art. He created images with a double meaning, where he narrated the theme of the work through the symbols of objects and human gestures. The style of his paintings is influenced by ancient Ukrainian iconography and European modernists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Giorgio de Chirico. Oleg Minko's works are kept in state museums of national importance in Ukraine and private collections in Ukraine and abroad. The artist had personal exhibitions in London, Helsinki, Brussels, Copenhagen, Washington, and Vilnius.
The early 1960s was a time of experiments — Oleh Minko was just looking for his artistic language and individual sound. At that time, he looked up to his teacher Karlo Zvirynskyi and, under his influence, studied various avant-garde theories. The artist masterfully combines multiple colors and textures, searches for a new visual expressiveness of form, and creates "tactile abstractions" as a way of immanent sensual reflection of the world.
