Mykola Trehub is a Ukrainian painter, nonconformist, and a bright representative of the Kyiv underground of the 1970s. Together with his friend and artist Woodon Baklytsky, they formed the New Bent group in the early 1960s. The artists explore the art world, promote the idea of free expression, choose their worldview as the basis for art, speak their own artistic language, and create a special page of the Kyiv underground. The artists drew much inspiration from Picasso and Gauguin. Trehub and Baklytsky encouraged the rejection of socialist realism and the promotion of European art. They were incomprehensible to the public, and therefore, when they exhibited their works, they showed them mainly to free thinkers like them.
