ECCE HOMO Painting

"The idea of this picture originates from my intention to pay a tribute to Andrea Mantegna, whose relatively small painting Ecce Homo, ca. 1500, now in Paris, made a great impression on me. Following Mantegna’s compositional structure, I nevertheless reduced the religious content to a mere symbolism, and focused instead on expressing the subtleties of the human emotion. My son acted as a model." The picture is the winner of 2 international awards. AWARDS: 2010 The Artist of The Year Award (Artsits & Illustrators Magazine, UK) 2011 Merit Award, Art Kudos International Juried Competition USA “This work is a compelling re-thinking of a time-honored Christian theme. The competent and fluid handling of flesh and the re-casting of the theme to feature a single boy in various guises generates multiple meanings and evokes the moral and psychological complexity of the human condition.” Described by Holly Koons McCullough, former Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, and the Award selector for ArtKudos International Competition 2011, Ecce Homo by Valery Koroshilov, has been given a Merit Award by the Jury, and with the five other prize-winners featured the the 7th annual exhibition of the finalists representing 157 artists from 23 countries. A year earlier, the same painting has been voted by the Jury of the Artists & Illustrators Magazine, UK the overall Winner of the Artist of The Year Award 2010, with more than 3,500 artists participated in the competition. The painting has been widely published. LITERATURE: Artist of The Year Winners 2010, ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE (UK), September 2010, p. 33 The Artist’s Studio, MODERN PAINTERS (USA), October 2012, p. 103 Artists’ Directory, AESTHETICA (UK), issue 47, June/July 2012, p. 128 Arts Agenda, WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL Magazine (USA), 12 July 2013 42 Masters of Realistic Imagery, Who’s Who In Visual Art, Art Domain Whois Verlag, Leipzig 2012, p. 20 Past Master, ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE (UK), Summer 2013, p. 32 VALERY KOROSHILOV, Summer Exhibition of New Works Catalogue, The Osborne Studio Gallery, London 2013 Valery Koroshilov, POETS & ARTISTS, April 2011, vol.4, issue 2