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Video: Silver Age romance in Art Nouveau style on the canvases of Moscow artist Svetlana Valueva
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
- so said the teachers of painting at the Moscow State Art Institute. Surikov to his student - Svetlana Valueva … And, of course, they were right. Even as a student, the Moscow artist began to get involved in the Art Nouveau style, that is, modern, so popular among painters at the beginning of the last century. The heroines of her delightful canvases are women who were destined to live during the Silver Age. Depicted surrounded by graceful forms and immersed in the mystical world of fantasy, they captivate the viewer with their gracefulness, sophistication and beauty.
- this is exactly what the artist herself says about her works, whose paintings have always aroused considerable interest among the public.
The very first collection of an aspiring artist in the early 90s was bought by a well-known publisher from Japan. To date, the circle of admirers of Svetlana's work has expanded. Her amazing paintings are not only in domestic private collections, but well-known collectors of world painting from England, Belgium, Germany, Japan, USA, France acquire them on the art market.
A bit from the history of Art Nouveau
I would like to say a few words about the artistic style in which Valueva has been working throughout his creative career, reviving him, as it were, anew.
The artistic direction (from the French art nouveau, literally: "new art") aka modern (translated from French: moderne - modern) - arose and developed in architecture, arts and crafts, painting and graphics in the last decade of the XIX - early XX century. Famous artists of that time joined this style in their time, bringing their own "I" into it. Among the founders of the style are such famous names: Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt, Fernand Knopf, Mikhail Vrubel.
A distinctive feature of Art Nouveau is the rejection of straight lines and angles in favor of more natural, "natural" lines, interest in new technologies and applied art. Representatives of Art Nouveau sought to combine the artistic and practical functions of the created works, filling them in the best traditions of romanticism and symbolism. The prevailing Art Nouveau color scheme is muted shades: the color of a withered rose, tobacco colors, pearl gray, gray-blue, dusty lilac tones.
A few words about the artist
Svetlana Valueva was born in Moscow in 1966. As long as she can remember, she has always painted. At the age of eight, Sveta's works got to an international exhibition in Cuba, for which the girl received a gold medal. At the age of nine, she won the Grand Prix at the annual international exhibition of children's drawings in Delhi (India).
Such an overwhelming success of the young talent was followed by many years of studying fine arts at the Moscow Tomsky Art School, located at the famous Surikov Institute. After graduating from which, Svetlana became the best student of the institute itself. Among hundreds of students, she stood out for her works, literally saturated with the style and mood of the romantic Silver Age, therefore she often heard from teachers that she was born a whole century later.
Then, in 1991, there was a creative practice in Germany at the Stuttgart Academy of Arts in the class of Professor Shafrat, where the aspiring artist was gaining experience and honing her skills. It was here that she approached the style that became her trademark in the future. By the way, in Germany, Art Nouveau has its own name - "Jugendstil" (from the German Jugendstil - "young style" - after the name of the illustrated magazine Jugend founded in 1896).
It is worth noting that the first personal exhibition of Valueva's works, which brought her fame and recognition, took place in the prestigious Moscow Gallery already in 1993. It was then that the entire collection was bought out, which inspired the young novice master to create new ones. So, in 1995, Svetlana, having already become a fairly well-known artist, completed the order of the Bolshoi Theater - a series of paintings about ballet.
The talented Moscow artist Svetlana Valueva continues to create exciting female images of the "Silver Age" in the art nouveau style with her characteristic manner of painting, drawing attention to her works from more and more viewers and admirers of her talent.
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