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10 Hryven Planetarism of Ivan Marchuk
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Weight | 33.62 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a high-relief reproduction of a fragment from Ivan Marchuk's 1992 painting 'Awakening,' depicting an intricate network of intertwined organic forms rendered across the entire field in the artist's distinctive 'pliontanism' style. A circular raised element is positioned to the left of centre, overlapping the textured background and creating a sense of depth. The small Ukrainian State Emblem (tryzub) appears at the top centre within a recessed cartouche. The Cyrillic legend 'УКРАЇНА' is inscribed vertically within a rectangular panel at the lower right of the field. |
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| Edge | Plain with incuse lettering |
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Ivan Marchuk, born 1936 in Moskalivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, is Ukraine's most internationally decorated living painter — named among the "100 Geniuses of the Modern World" by the British Daily Telegraph in 2007. His "Pliontanizm" style, which he developed and coined himself in the 1990s, involves layering semi-transparent paint films to create depth effects that resist straightforward photographic reproduction. The National Bank has issued artist-tribute coins before, but Marchuk's selection in 2024 carries unmistakable wartime cultural weight — a deliberate assertion of Ukrainian artistic identity during the Russian invasion.