Union of Contemporary Artists of Ukraine
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Union of Contemporary Artists of Ukraine (Об’єднання сучасних митців України, or ОСМУ; Obiednannia suchasnykh myttsiv Ukrainy, or OSMU). An association of Soviet Ukrainian artists, established in Kharkiv in 1927 by former members of the Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine, who no longer wished to follow the style represented by Mykhailo Boichuk and the boichukists. Its members—Lev Kramarenko, Viktor Palmov, Anatol Petrytsky, Ilarion Pleshchynsky, Yurii Sadylenko, Mikhail Sharonov, Dmitrii Shavykin, Illia Shtilman, Andrii Taran, P. Golubiatnikov, I. Zhdanko, and others—followed the newer schools of European modernist art, particularly those in France and the postfuturists (see Futurism). Oleksander Bohomazov and Kazimir Malevich had close ties with OSMU although formally they were not members. OSMU was disbanded in 1932 under pressure from the Stalinist regime.
[This article was updated in 2026.]