Street Artist Pastel paints thistles in Kiev, Ukraine 2016

Street artist Pastel has just finished painting his mural in Kiev, Ukraine for the Art United Us project. Art United Us project unites two hundred artists through mural art and the promulgation of maintaining peace on Earth, and is curated by Geo Leros, Iryna Kanishcheva and Waone Interesni Kazki.

Pastel new mural is called ‘Two peasants’ and is based on the history of the Makhnovist movement at the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution as Pastel explains below…

“The revolution in Ukraine was a libertarian revolution, and the workers and peasants (Black Army) fought both Tsarist reaction and Bolshevik domination. In February 1917, there was a Popular uprising in the Russian empire. The Tsar abdicated the principal political parties – most of them Socialist, and began to set up a crude parliamentary democracy, led by the Mensheviks. But Russia was a big, bleak, backward old empire that sprawled across five time zones, communication was bad; the uprisings continued. Radicals were released from prison, dissidents returned from exile, and ordinary people became increasingly aware of the possibilities of communal power. Peasants chased out the landowners, workers took over the factories and many organized themselves democratically through local mass meetings – Soviets”. Pastel

Pastel, Kiev, Ukraine Photo © @dronarium

Pastel, Kiev, Ukraine Photo © @dronarium

Pastel, Kiev, Ukraine Photo © @dronarium

Pastel paints nature and flowers from the region he finds himself in. This time he paints a thistle and a flower collected from the local area and uses as his inspiration.

Pastel, Kiev, Ukraine

Photo credit @dronarium

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