Charke Maas in the Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fountain House

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Charke Maas (Tjaarke Maas). She was born in Holland, lived in Italy with the Russian husband, actor Yuri Olshansky, graduated from the Academy of Arts in Florence.

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the artist showed great interest in Russian culture, Russian language, which is trying to learn independently. "Lyrics only in Russian!" - She wrote in her notes. Russian language, which it uses in its own way, sometimes with its inherent sense of humor, do not hesitate errors, it becomes part of her works, both in general composition, in many scenes, and in the drawings and private notes. An interesting approach to writing the artist's portraits. Very often, as a basis Charke selects the board and wrote their friends under the laws of writing icons .. Today, interest in its creation is due both to the dramatic fate of the artist - she died in 2004 aged 30 and especially the depth of her understanding of the world and man, the tragic and touching at the same time.
Exhibition of works by Charke Maas Museum continues the theme of life and the fate of the artist in the space of world culture. A very important place in the work Charke Maas took the birds: pigeons, gulls or coined it José - sewn soft bird in all the many crossings of the artist who accompanied her in a cardboard box with the inscription: «Important!». Sometimes, the birds are co-sponsoring works Charke. She often came to the Florence area, threw grain pigeons, were arranged with a huge list on my knees, and sometimes directly on the stone and painted. The birds flocked to it from all of Florence, climbed on the work, leaving their footprints, in paint-stained feet. Seeing one sheets from the series, is no longer possible, feeding pigeons in St. Petersburg Sheremetevsky garden, not to remember those of Florence, who as selflessly and with all limbs "rush to the grain, creating a lively, cheerful and quite spontaneously the crowd, impressed the Dutch artist.