Oles Semernya (2 August 1936 – 6 July 2012) was a Ukrainian artist, working mainly Ukraine and Moldova. He is one of the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian naive painting of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. He made more than 600 paintings. Alexander F. Semernya member of the Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine and a member of the Moldovan and Ukrainian Charity Foundation of Professional Artists and Craftsmen "Renastere-Renaissance". Philosophical views – "Cossack Mamay of Ukrainian art" Oles Semernya – one of the most enigmatic creative figures of Ukraine. Oles becomes typical free Cossack, the defense of the Ukrainian people in one person. It is called a philosopher-recluse, because the artist lived in the countryside – and worked there, abandoning public life. This style of life, the artist explained that for him the whole world opens up when he is in front of the easel for which he created a bright and colorful work on the themes of national life. For their freedom-loving life picture of the implementation in the public manner Oles was nicknamed "Cossack Mamay of Ukrainian art." Biography of events and creativity Childhood Oles Semernya born on 2 August 1936 in the village of Berdyansk district of Zaporozhye region. Childhood in the Mariupol district. His mother – Maria Andrey Kasian, father – Fyodor Semernya. For the fact that my mother during the German occupation, worked as a nurse in a German hospital, Olesya with her mother and younger brother in the late 40s was sent to the city of Dzhezkazgan Karaganda region of Kazakhstan (near Baikonur). From here he went and came back here after a service in the Soviet Army (1954–1956). The first work Painted since childhood. After the army longing for Ukraine Semernyu leads to the city of Voznesensk, Mykolaiv Oblast. There he marries and starts drawing. Becomes a member of the creative association "Pribuzhie" where in 1970 held his first solo exhibition. In 1977 received the title of "Master of Folk Art." However, almost no one (including his wife – a medic with higher education) does not perceive it "wrong" drawing. Not finding support and understanding, Oles runs away from civilization "in the weeds" is a vagrant, further finds home in Kriva Pustosh, and later leaves Ukraine, as has neither own property nor the workshop. Moldavian period, 1980s For a long time Semernya lived and worked in