Female Corporeality and Religion 2023
Online Art Exhibition
Prayer
Volodymyr Slepchenko
The work performed in author's original technique “Artline”
Oil on canvas
80 x 130 cm
2001
€4000
Description
The composition of this painting is divided into three parts. In the centre a young woman is praying, and next to her, in the dark clouds of night, the moonlight can be seen. In that light the silhouette of Mary is visible, bent over a sleeping child – the little Jesus. The lower part of the painting represents the earthly sphere. It is like a global Christmas lullaby for every human child. Behind the praying woman, on the left side of the painting, we see the wings of the Angel who protects the sleep of small children. The right side of the painting represents the figure of Jesus, who is walking in the light of God the Father. He came into this world through an earthly mother. Through his mother he blesses all mothers and their holy prayers.
Volodymyr Slepchenko
In his work, academician Volodymyr Slepchenko constantly returns to the theme of the female body in various cultural and sociological contexts.
Volodymyr Slepchenko (b. 1947) is a Ukrainian painter, graphic and monumental artist, and master of psychological portraiture. He works in the artistic orientation of romantic symbolism, inventing his own technique and unique artline style. People's Artist of Ukraine, Honored Artist of Ukraine, academician. Head of the Department of Culture and Arts and Academician of the World Academy of Arts (MONDIAL ART ACADEMIA), France.
He has participated in numerous regional, national, foreign and international exhibitions. He is the winner of many national and international awards, including the Botticelli Prize in 2019. Since 1970, he has held more than 80 personal exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Canada, Israel, Slovakia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Japan and other countries. He was a participant in the group exhibition of Ukrainian artists "Autumn Salon-90" in Paris (France) in 1990.
Volodymyr Slepchenko's paintings and graphic works are held in museums, galleries and private collections in Ukraine and in many countries of the world. Since 2005, the portrait of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta Andrew Bertie has been on permanent display at the Gallery of Portraits of Grand Masters in Malta. Since 2018, the painting "The Great Baptism" has found a place of honor in the permanent exhibition on the second floor of the main shrine of Ukraine - St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
For more than 50 years, the artist has been fruitfully working in various types and genres of fine arts, but among the main works of the artist are paintings on historical themes from the Trypillia era to the present.
