Uladzimir Urodnich

Uladzimir Urodnich is a contemporary Belarusian artist. He is an honored artist of the Republic of Belarus and head of the Traditsiya Art Collective. He works in easel painting, and he follows in the traditions of realism and socialist realism. He works in the genres of story-based and thematic painting, landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. The natural world of Belarus represents a truly inexhaustible source of inspiration for Uladzimir. The artist likes to depict endlessly unfolding planes and landscapes with an open horizon. It is through these visual themes that the artist seeks to uncover the larger-scale image of Belarus that is fraught with dramatic tension. A native village with a unique array of rambling country roads and piles of firewood, a portrait of a milkmaid or the dead body of a soldier in an overgrown thistle field are not just fleeting moments from the life of the country. Rather, they reveal the artist’s pronounced attitude to what he is depicting. The topic of the Great Patriotic War is a leitmotif that has been persistently present throughout all of the stages of Uladzimir's work. The artist doesn't just literally depict national heroes. Rather, he endows them with a spiritual and almost supernatural power, ...

1942 born in Bolshye Orly, Brest Region

1959 - 1963 studied at Minsk State Art College

1966 - 1972 studied at Belarusian State Theatre and Art Institute under A. Shevchenko, I. Akhremchik, and N. Voronov

1974 member of the Belarusian Union of Artists

Since 1992 Honored Worker of Arts of Belarus

2005 laureate of the “For Spiritual Revival” award