Edgar Degas painting “Ukrainian dancers”

Employees of the National Gallery of London renamed the painting “Russian Dancers” by the impressionist Edgar Degas in “Ukrainian Dancers” against the background of the Russian military special operation in Ukraine. Reported by The Guardian.

As one gallery employee told the publication, there has been long debate over the name of the canvas, which depicts dancing girls with yellow, blue, and red flowers and ribbons in their hair. Against the background of the political conflict in Ukraine, experts decided to fix the name. – he said from the inside.

Such an initiative was proposed by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where Degas’ works are kept, as well as the Ukrainian artist Miriam Nyem, who asked the gallery management to rename the canvas. .

Against the backdrop of a tense political situation around the world, they began to “cancel” Russian cultural figures. This affected musicians, athletes and others – in order to continue their activities abroad, they began to be asked to publicly condemn the military special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.