ARTIST EKATERINA IVANOVNA MEDVEDEVA
ARTIST OF NAIVE ART, PAINTINGS WHICH WERE FASCINATED BY HIMSELF MARC CHAGALL.
to be honest, naive art is very vulnerable in our country. One is annoying, and they ready themselves hoarse to prove that it is not art at all, other @- touches and they are willing to pay for it considerable money to get his collection. So, today would like to tell you about the amazing life of the artist Katya Medvedeva, stormed into great art almost 40-летнем age. Once at the exhibition of naive painting, the artist has come with the latest ruble in his pocket. And in a few hours, when almost all the paintings were sold @home - gone, rich girl.
last year Kate (Katherine) Medvedev celebrated his 80-летие, and two years ago celebrated its 40-летний anniversary. On it the artist remembered how in the spring of 1976 was organized its first exhibition where it presented 37 in his drawings. Remembered and how this event became the second of her birth. She then turned 39 years old. And her creations were from the category of very vulnerable naive style, which is now-то do not really understand and accept. And in those years it was really a sensation. However, working on the principle of" терпенье and labor", this simple woman has achieved what you strive for. But what is it worth it, few know @- only the closest.
In the early 1980-х Katya moved to Moscow and almost immediately held her first Moscow exhibition of works. And since then the work of Catherine Ivanovna very popular and successful, and she exhibited in the largest museums of Russia and the world.
For 40 years formed a wide circle of sincere admirers of the artist-самоучки, and her work in some private collections of naive art are fundamental. Foreign collectors are on the hunt for a painting Medvedeva, and critics in one voice say about her unique talent. She has mastered different techniques of painting @- acrylic, tempera, oil. The choice of suitable paint artist, listening to her moods and intuition.
In our days are annually organized on two personal exposure Medvedeva in Moscow, several exhibitions in Russian regions and all of this takes place alternately with the group exhibition projects. Such a busy schedule can envy even the most famous artists of modern Russia.
And not only private collectors of primitive interested in the work of masters. More than forty of her creations are in International house of the arts in Paris, and many more works are in the Museum Charlotte Zander in Germany. Russian modern art museums are also not far behind: in the Municipal Museum of naive art in Moscow, in the Museum-усадьбе" Царицыно", in the Moscow house of folk art @- for 40 years, collected many works of the artist.
highly valued of Katya"s paintings on ballet themes and decorative landscape of ancient cities. She loves to write and still lifes. However, the last ten years on the canvases of the artist are increasingly religious motives. The main feature of all her works is the kindness and humanity of so so drawn to her paintings like adults and children.
Artist-самоучка Katya Medvedev, which is sometimes very hard getting out of life, always finds a kind word for his audience and fans.
a Bit of the biography of the artist
Katya was Born in 1937 into a peasant family in the village of pigeon, near Belgorod. Childhood and adolescence, passed in the difficult war and postwar years of famine, wandering with his family in search of a better life in the cities of Russia and Azerbaijan, life in an orphanage after the death of his parents, hard work in a textile factory @forever - ingrained and left an indelible mark in her memory. Then, life, she for many years had the opportunity to make" кочевую" life, moving from place to place.
And curiously enough, Kate did not learn to draw anywhere. The first time she tried to do it with gouache in 1976, when she was already forty. She created their first masterpiece @-" Хлеб pressing", and this to such an extent captured young woman that will stop it could not. Manifested suddenly, the talent rapidly spilled out and three months later the same 1976, he organized a personal exhibition of an aspiring artist.
Kate is very lucky, her art noticed, her work has been exhibited in the same room with the works of Chagall and Henri Matisse. Had also hosted her solo exhibition in nice. And interestingly, her creations immediately noticed Marc Chagall, who, at the request of one collector who bought the painting Medvedeva, written under the autograph of the artist:" Катя Medvedev — is a purely Russian talent. She also loves color, as я"".
But despite the global popularity, Katerina Ivanovna had no permanent residency and lived in the workshops of fellow artists. And as you know, people art @- people are extraordinary, creative and caring. They then wrote a petition to the city authorities with a request to allocate a dwelling by eminent artist.
Moscow officials have met, and a small room of the municipal Fund Kate got.
But from 2000-х moved original artist in a remote village in Ryazan region. There and still lives and writes his naive paintings. She even starred in the film Director Vladimir Sivkova, where she played herself.
Professional Union of artists of Russia Katya Medvedev, in line with its belonging to the artistic direction, has presented a version of the Internet-проекта nominated" 10000 the best world artists of XVIII—XXI века".
Source: https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/301218/41806/
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