Volodymyr Hlushchenko

Biography

Volodymyr Hlushchenko was born on July 1, 1939, in Mala Petrykivka (then the village of Chervonopartizanske, Tsarychanskyi district, Dnipro region). He graduated from the Petrykivka Children’s Art School, where he studied art under the guidance of Vasyl Sokolenko and Fedir Panko.

Since 1961, he has been working at the Druzhba Art Factory in Petrykivka. Since 1968 - a creative master. In 1995-1997, he was the chief artist of the Petrykivka Painting Factory, the successor of Druzhba. Since 1997, he has been working at the Petrykivka Folk Art Center.

Artistic Practice

She paints Petrykivka painting on paper, paints wood, plastic, and metal products, and creates interior paintings. Among his famous works: decorative painting on paper “Everything for you, my love” (1966), underlacquer paintings on wood and plastic - a box “Cossack and a girl” (1976), a folder-address “Kyiv - 1500” (1980).

A characteristic feature of his work is his reference to the images and moods of Ukrainian folk songs. The master is often inspired by specific songs, embodying them in a series of thematic panels: “An old man stood with a young woman, as with a berry”, “Oh, there Roman is grazing oxen”, “How would I not have a tynochka”, “I got sick on the road”.

Recognition

Honored Master of Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR (1968). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1977). Participant of regional, republican and all-Union art exhibitions since 1964. 1974 - a personal exhibition in Chicago. Participant in international exhibitions in Leipzig (1978, 1980). His works are kept in museum and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.