A TALENT'S STATEMENT IN CERAMICS
A TALENT'S STATEMENT IN CERAMICS . Mykhailo Denysenko, an outstanding artist and a connoisseur of folk culture, has been working in the field of artistic ceramics for the last fifty years. He was among those who turned an ordinary pottery works in Vasylkiv into a famous production facility of unique Ukrainian majolica. Last year the artist celebrated his eightieth anniversary. And now, as always, he goes on with his tireless work in his studio. The artist incarnates his wisdom and his rich experience in unique ceramic compositions, as he did, for example, in his philosophic composition "The Art of Ceramics is Eternal". World War Two and years of captivity in Germany made a dramatic page in the artist's biography. After the defeat of fascism, Mykhailo Denysenko had an opportunity to study at the Paris Art Academy. But, this former student of Leonora Bloch (an Auguste Roden alumna) chose to return to his Motherland. Denysenko's story is told by Vasyl Shcherbak as well as by the artist himself in his letter to the article's author.