Art has always been a way of resistance for many since the soviet era. Oleg Tistol portrayed cultural and political figures who opposed the totalitarian regime. He was the one who began to develop visual national stereotypes, depicting symbols, places and people that are historically associated with the nation, but often misused and manipulated for imperial purposes. The series of Ukrainian Crimean landscapes was initiated long before the russian invasion. The artist uses an approach that is almost poster-like, achieving maximum simplicity to explain the truth. He paints the iconic Crimean mountain Ay Petri according to traditional Ukrainian ornamentation, as it rises high on Ukrainian soil.