Like many of their compatriots, many had to abandon their homes and work, but now they are using their talent to fight back
More than 200 years after Francisco Goya commemorated Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies in The Third of May 1808, his groundbreaking work on the horrors of war, Ukrainian painters, illustrators and cartoonists are trying to find an artistic expression as Russian bombs fall on their country.
Like other Ukrainians, many artists had to abandon their homes – and their work – when war broke out.
Andriy Roik at his studio in Lviv with Apogee Under the Question Mark