Vladimir Udod's Profile

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Vladimir Udod was born November 13, 1937 in Dnepropetrovskiy region, Ukraine. For all his life he got a lot of specializations, but most of the time he worked as photographer and journalist in different places, such as, magazines, newspapers, and televisions. His hobby is the nature that often reflected his pictures and drawings.

Vladimir began to take very serious the fine arts in 1958 in art studio at Palace of Culture of Arts in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine under the direction of Alexander Surjanskiy. Since then, Vladimir created few hundreds of paintings which were sold in former Soviet Union. Owners of these paintings are very proud to have them, and The Artists Union of Ukraine gave him a title “The Master of National Creativity”.

Vladimir’s first art show was in 1985 at Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum (October 12, 1985 – February 6, 1986). His first personal art show was in March 1987 in Novomoskovsk City, Ukraine. At this art show Vladimir represented his 44 paintings, that some of these painting were did in 1958. Two paintings of that year, “The Breeze of Spring” and “Katherine”, are based on stories of famous writer Taras Shevchenko. These pictures still exist and you will be able to see them at this Art Show.

After about three years, Vladimir had a second personal art show. Then, since life in Ukraine wasn’t so easy, the artist was not able to spend his time on his hobby, fine arts, beginning from 1996 through 2007. When he came to USA, in 2008, he started to draw paintings again. That’s why most of his represented paintings are done here. The paintings that were made in Ukraine are in oil, the paintings that were done in USA are in acrylic.

All Vladimir’s work is not a fiction. His paintings are telling the stories, that the author was imagining and putting them on canvas. Vladimir’s work is a bright example of fine arts and spectators are delighted to watch them. There were a lot of good reviews about his paintings in Ukraine. The author would like to know what American spectators think about his pictures.