"Despite the path traveled together, there is still a path for everyone, an individual path. I, unlike my colleagues, was formed not in Odessa, but in Leningrad, during my studies at the institute, during the so-called "Khrushchev thaw". It was the "sixties". In the West - Sartre, Camus, Oscar Niemeyer (Brazil), the Sydney Opera House, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn... Glass, concrete, wide landscapes, the light that permeates it all. Simplicity, clarity, naturalness. Hippie movement, brotherhood, love, freedom... Bearded handsome men with guitars; artists who operate not only with brushes and paint, but with landscapes and streams of light. All this, with new literature, with albums of reproductions of the latest art, with exhibitions from the West and the East, the collections of the Hermitage and the collections of public libraries, broke into the oppressive atmosphere of "gloomy St. Petersburg", awakened the imagination, encouraged action..."
Volodymyr Tsyupko
"Volodymyr Tsyupko is one of the most prominent figures in Ukrainian painting of the second half of the 20th century"
Oleksiy Tytarenko, art critic
"Volodymyr Tsyupko confidently and faithfully follows the path of his chosen vision in his work. Its range, the depth of research of its own sector of painting paradoxically allow the artist to be extremely different and, at the same time, preserve the integrity of personal expression... The direction of the artist's search is the constant study and advancement of the fundamental principles of art as such... The tectonic base, color and texture... Such conscious self-limitation unexpectedly turned out to be the key to an inexhaustibly diverse space. Having reduced, like a follower of Occam, the number of significant entities, the master invented a new integrity. Volodymyr Tsyupko has the lucky gift of combining opposites: self-restraint, discipline and loyalty to principles and the richness of pictorial manifestations, intelligence that strengthens and purifies emotion, a modern vision and the entire legacy of professional technical perfection, abstractness of view and extreme materiality of texture. This is what makes his works open to the general public - from specialists and sophisticated supporters to the general public."
Andriy Gurenko, art critic
"Expression and classicism are equally characteristic of Tsyupko's work, if we understand by them the power of expressiveness and the degree of balance. Before us is a well-organized emotional explosion. It is accepted to attribute emotionality to nature, and to leave good organization to reason, culture and education. For Tsyupko, the feeling of balance is as natural as the feeling of color - the sound of the soul... The heart of the canvas is color; Tsyupka's color is simple and strong. The collision of reds and blacks in the vibrating whiteness of the space gives a burst of color of extraordinary power... It is undeniable that before us is a painter whose works live the experience of spiritual creativity, a dialogue with the material, the ability to hear the growth of the canvas as a living organism, to feel, finally, a high moment when the canvas begins to glow..."
Olga Savytska, art critic
"Art is an organizing force that operates according to the laws of the universe."
Volodymyr Tsyupko
"He is called the father of Odessa abstraction, and it really is so..."
Roman Krakalia, journalist
"Volodymyr Tsyupko not only has his bright face in painting, he is to some extent a symbol, a sign of the entire South Ukrainian painting"
Oleksiy Tytarenko, art critic
"Form is the organization of chaos. Purposeful organization. Only a self-limited, crystallized, protected from destruction form carries, expresses and represents the spirit, and thus is perfect - it can be a part of the phenomenon, which is called CULTURE"
Volodymyr Tsyupko
"Volodymyr Tsyupko is one of the most prominent figures in Ukrainian painting of the second half of the 20th century"
Oleksiy Tytarenko, art critic
"If you are an artist, watch out! It is not for nothing that the words "morality, ethics, aesthetics" are put together. These are the talismans that stand on the chat of human strength. This is a condition for the survival of an individual, family, nation, and society. The concepts expressed by these words determine the dignified existence of a person. The words can be interchanged, but they remain closely related and serve the same purpose. They should also be a condition for defining the word "dignity". Dignity of the individual, family, kind, nation, state. What can be dignity without morality? What can be morality without ethics? What can be ethics without aesthetics?
Volodymyr Tsyupko