“Children draw tanks, planes, fires and explosions. They draw the wounded and killed, destroyed houses and graves. They draw themselves and their families. They depict evacuation and escape. But they also paint images of hope and their dreams for the future.”
An exhibition showing war in the eyes of children and the “shocking” similarity between modern and historical paintings. It brings together Ukrainian children's drawings depicting the Russian invasion and Polish children's drawings created after the Second World War, writes The Art Newspaper.
The exhibition “Mother, I do not want war” – on display in 16 cities in Poland, including Warsaw and the border town of Przemyśl, the main port of arrival for Ukrainian refugees – emphasizes the shared experience of occupation, repression and resistance, as well as the unwavering belief in victory. The pictures are a moving testimony of the war, emphasizing its particularly brutal impact on the youngest members of society.
The performance is a joint initiative of the National Archives of Poland and the Ukrainian digital project “Mother, I see war”. Poland's National Archives holds more than 7,000 children's drawings from 1946, created as part of a post-war initiative aimed at enabling young Poles to process the trauma of the Nazi occupation.
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< p>Similarly, the Mother, I See War project has collected more than 13,500 children's drawings since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February. Its founders intend to create a permanent digital collage of Ukrainian children's works, while simultaneously spreading awareness of Ukraine's situation and raising funds for humanitarian aid. After completion, the collage will be auctioned as an NFT, and all funds will go to Ukrainian children's charities.
Mom, I see war project
According to Pawel Petrzyk, director of the National Archives of Poland, the similarity between modern and historical children's drawings is “shocking”, despite the fact that they were created almost a century apart. “Children draw tanks, planes, fires and explosions. They draw the wounded and killed, destroyed houses and graves. They draw themselves and their families. They depict evacuation and escape. But they also paint images of hope and their dreams for the future. Ukraine is objectively unable to cope with the tribunal against Russia on its own — ex-general prosecutor Ukrainian investigators, first of all, have no experience in working with international law. But this is not the only reason. Klitschko assessed the probability of a second attack on Kyiv and explained why the previous one was allowed He notes that today the Russian army is unable to break through the city's defenses. Haidai confirmed the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Wagner base The number of eliminated occupiers is being specified. Yesterday, Russia lost 200 of its soldiers and a lot of equipment: fresh data from the General Staff The enemy had the hardest time in the Donetsk direction.
