Продам: E.Figurina, two pictures

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Elena Figurina:
1. Figure, canvas /oil, 2002, 110 x 90 cm
2. Red boat, canvas /oil, 1993, 90 x 120 cm


Elena Figurina born in Latvia in 1955. Fourteen years later the family moved to Leningrad. Elena is here consciously learn in music school, graduated from her guitar and taught there for several years after graduation.

Then the future artist receives the profession of engineer, having graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrument.

It all started in the third degree with a desire to buy the paint. Following the successful acquisition, it is not owning technology, Helen began to write. According to Helen, an artist or a musician, it was not going to get, it was all for it a hobby.

In the mid seventies in Moscow and Leningrad are large open exhibition of unofficial art, and it excites not only artistic circles, but also the general public. Many amateur artists working engineers and teachers begin to participate in the artistic process, conscious of their creative potential.

Something similar happens with Elena Figurina. Gradually organized social circle, she begins to participate in apartment exhibitions, is a group of "Chronicle", which is headed by Boris Koshelokhov. Creativity of artists, far from the socialist realism, was banned. Exhibition in 1978 at the House of Folk Art is closed.

In those years, formed a picturesque style Elena Figurina sufficiently expressive, with broad brush strokes and local color. Even the earliest works of the artist does not fit into the framework of naive art, which for her overly straightforward and at the same time too bystander.

In 1981, there is "Association of Experimental Art" and Figurin becomes an active participant in the partnership.

In 2000, the artist became a member of the Academy of Modern Art immortals who organized and led by Felix Volossenkov. According to the organizers, in the academy include recognized artists and innovators. Elena Figurina course - one of St. Petersburg "immortals" of artists whose work all over the world are the calling card of Modern Art of the city on the Neva.

Figurin recognizes that it can not work. However, she still wonders whether it is the artist? The fact that the art for it - is not a profession, and not even calling. It is her unique way of being on the ground as a thinking and feeling being. She says that conceiving a picture, you need to articulate for themselves the question of what's on your mind. The solution to this internal problem and there is a major in the works, and the material result obtained on the canvas and a visible audience, not so important. Figurin remembers what a surprise made her first purchase of her pictures. Because it means that other people can see in her work something interesting and important to you!

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