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Drawing inspiration from the art of Ukrainian illustrators, we asked our students to be creative and share their own works: thoughts, stories, poems, drawings...

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SupportUkrainePIC. We are a group of Ukrainian illustrators - Pictoric. We created this website to fight against Russian aggression in our homeland, Ukraine. We collect and create illustrations, posters, and comic books that can support Ukraine and its people, convey true information, and inspire the whole world to fight for freedom and democracy.

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I chose this picture because what is written in it struck me a lot because it made me reflect on the fact that from one day to the next these people found themselves under bombs, without shelter and without anything.

This sentence describes how their life has changed in a few hours and how things that are normal for us are symbols of the war they are experiencing, such as a broken glass or window.

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This drawing represents the vision of the militarty who decided to bomb the Mariupol theater ignoring the warning  "children"  written in Russian.

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this drawing was inspired by illustrator Oleksandr Shatokhin

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I think this picture is so significant for the period we’re going through, because during this moment lots of people, including children, are losing their life, the most important thing.

I felt so sad and upset when I saw what was happening in Ukraine, and also tired and angry. These kinds of events are not supposed to happen owing to the diplomacy we have learned over the years and after all the past wars. I understand the motivations of the actions but I think there is another way to manage their avversation, and it is not to terrorized and submit an entire population.

I’m against all of this and I hope that they will reach a compromise.

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I think that this picture shows the feelings of people who live outside of Ukraine, in Europe; we are very close to the country and we are worried that the war could go further. Every day we are subjected to hundreds of fresh news from the Ukrainian cities and not paying attention to them feels like we don't care about the terrible situation that is going on. The reality is that there are too many news that have to be checked, so constantly following the situation isn't the best thing to do, also for our mental health; seeing all these destructive images makes us feel oppressed and powerless.

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In this painting,made by Anna Sarvira we can see Putin with a flower that grows on his body.

I think that this image can represent an important thing that sometimes we don't remember. Humans are very little in front of nature, they believe always to be the most powerful species on the earth, but this is a fake. Nature is always capable of rebuild everything that we have destroyed.

I took this picture also because it reminds me an important painter that I have studied this year: Pablo Picasso.

In Guernica, a paint that denounces the horrors of the war of Spain, we have  the image of a flower that borns from a broken arm, and it represents the image of the rebirth.

I believe that when the Ukrainian war will finish we will have the rebirth of nature.

People will return to their homes and cities will be rebuilt. The flower is a symbolic image and in this context  we can rely the flower to the fact that one day the war will finish and Putin will be defeated or killed  and we will return to a period of peace and prosperity like the period that we were living before the beginning of this war

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This picture makes me think about Rupert Brooke’s poem and De Andrè’s song “La guerra di Piero”. When i was a kid listening to De Andrè’s songs i used to think that nature would live regardless of the mistakes that the humankind makes, but growing up i realized that war is extremely destructive; today we are dealing with a nuclear threat and i’m severely concerned about the consequences that would occur in a third world war scenario as only 50 nuclear bombs would make the planet earth not habitable (there are more than 13000 nuclear weapons in the world).
There’s a strong contrast between the Russian military suit and the image of Ukraine created by the sky and the field. This makes me think about the fact that the dead Russian stepped in a foreign land on account of a delusional person who sends innocent teenagers to the front.

I wish that one day we could put aside all the differences and all the borders and just realize how similar we are.

Putin criticizes the Western countries as they defend different values, but i think that under democracy multiple values can coexist, and that it certainly guarantees freedom, which is a privilege that was taken away from russian people.

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Inspired by:  https://www.supportukraine-pic.com/?pgid=j9zl8qi9-aec4fe6b-9571-4c96-8777-b08c5d89d0fa

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This is the first of three photomontages that I made. I took inspiring pictures from the Internet, modified and put all together to create this image. At the end I decided to put a quotation that I think suited both the picture and the situation.

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This is the second of three photomontages that I made. I took inspiring pictures from the Internet, modified and put all together to create this image. At the end I decided to put a quotation that I think suited both the picture and the situation.

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This is the last one of the three photomontages that I made. I took inspiring pictures from the Internet, modified and put all together to create this image. At the end I decided to put a quotation that I think suited both the picture and the situation.

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I am deeply shocked by the astonishing resistance Ukrainians have put up against a threat as great as the Russian Federation (or should I call it the new Russian empire of 2022?).

This whole situation made me think about late 1940, when a weak and desperate Britain was fighting alone against the Axis powers. In the darkest time of the history of the UK, doomsday was tremendously near for the brits; however, thanks to a massive effort by both population and army and of course the leading of honorable Sir Winston Churchill, the british isles never got invaded by the nazis.

Now, it is clear that the Ukrainian situation is different as they do not have one particular characteristic that saved Britain in the past: sea borders. I am therefore sure that Ukranians are carrying out exactly what British people were doing back in 1940: believe in final victory, fight to the last stand. They’re not losing hope, not a single man, woman or child is thinking about surrender. They’re alone (they do not have military alliances with anyone)  and outnumbered, but as in WW2, there is one big nation that is, in terms of generic and military aids, helping the fight, as well as half the world.

So, will the mighty United States enter a conflict between a superpower nation as they did in 1941, or will it be a different scenario?  Will there be a casus belli as Pearl Harbor or the sinking of Lusitania?

Nothing is certain, but one particular outline is crystal clear: if the war will prolong for more time than Tsar Putin has planned, not only Ukraine will be doomed and buried alive, but also Europe and Planet Earth itself.

And this, my fellows, is scaring the hell out of me.

The ghost of Nuclear War is again whispering in the darkness, tucking in all public networks, especially social media.

We, the folk, must act as Ghostbusters and catch him in a trap, neutralise it once and for all.

We shall fight for denuclearization, all people of the world, united as one, against doomsday.

Against human annihilation, for a better, safe and peaceful planet.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

#standwithUkraine.

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Inspired by https://www.supportukraine-pic.com/?pgid=j9zl8qi9-bc726b52-d58c-48aa-9310-5d94bbd5d751

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This image makes me feel anxious and confused, and I think that that's how the people represented are feeling: they are escaping their homes and leaving everything behind in order to survive. They probably don't even know where to go and what to do, but they bring their friends, family and pets with them.

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Can you hear the birds singing
on the destroyed roofs of cities,
the end of the war has come.

Can you see the teers of joy
on those frightened faces
and those soules tormented by looses.

Can you imagine the lost look
of that father, which family died
in those miserable ruins.

Faces full of teers, due to looses
Faces full of joy, embracing the dearest ones .

But now look at the child
wrapped in sadness,
whose arms will never hold
the mother's waist again.

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I took inspiration from this wonderful drawing and added a little text

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I chose this picture because in my opinion ignorance is the cause of many wars. The pencil represents the culture, and I think that only with culture, education and love for each other, we will live in a world without war.

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In my opinion this picture represents the union and courage of the people
who are fighting together to defeat the enemy. Using a pencil they hit the
monster behind them, representing their executioner. This photo moves
me because those people are fighting not only to defend their country
from the atrocities, but also to defend their ideals.
I found this quotation of Martin Luther King that can summarize the meaning
of this picture:
“One day fear knocked on the door, courage got up and opened it to see
no one standing outside “.

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