Video: Chief specialist in paradise, naive artist Elena Volkova
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The remarkable Russian artist Elena Volkova from the city of Chugueva began to paint at the age of 65, and before that she worked as an assistant projectionist at a cinema. In 2005, when she turned 90, her personal exhibition was held at the Tretyakov Gallery. Volkova's works are in many art galleries around the world.
Naive artists are people whom God gave to see and feel beauty, but did not give them the opportunity to learn to be an artist. The oldest naive artist Elena Andreevna Volkova said very accurately about the creative process: “Before starting work, I must gain an impression, a desire to work. But suddenly at some point I felt that my soul was filled with creativity and it calls to itself. It was the Lord who blessed me for new creatures. Blessing is inspiration. This is when joy and delight come into my soul. This is a special feeling, with nothing. Comparable, holy, magical. You open your eyes and see what you have to do, and then everything is written as if by itself. " As if I entered the picture and paint everything from the inside … In the picture, the main thing for me is to find the shape, outline, silhouette. give it the correct shape … Everything that is in the picture must be connected with each other. Everything depends on each other. Everything should live peacefully and be friends. Just as people on Earth are created for goodness and happiness, so the objects in the picture must correspond to each other. Everyone fulfills their role, everyone has their own place, their own color and character, their own mood. I don't need nature. I remember everything and everyone. When I draw, I imagine in my thoughts what this or that object should be …"
There is happiness inside her paintings: happy apples and pears, all creatures of the earth, happy and the old woman herself. What have you to do with her, she is of sound mind and has lived a hard life. And for her, this state of total complacency is so simple that she does not understand how it is inaccessible to everyone else.
"Peace to all!" - this wish is the creativity of Elena Andreevna. Not just an artist, but a national pride of Russia. Her name is included in the English and American encyclopedias of naive art, books are published about her in different countries, she became the first naive artist whose lifetime exhibition was staged at the Tretyakov Gallery. Elena Andreevna is 94 years old, but age does not matter: her creativity brings warmth and joy, spiritual purity and life itself in all its versatility. - When they tell me that I am God's chosen one, then I think that this is so, - explains - A when they don’t speak, I don’t think. I'm illiterate. My legs are sick since childhood, so I did not go to school. Dad taught me letters at home. But I have a good memory, I remember so many poems. What is the tremendous power of naive art? All "naive" works are deeply personal. This is a kind of autobiography in a deep imaginative form. Moreover, the artist presented herself in many of her works. Elena Volkova's paintings are a unique phenomenon. Her painting does not pose any pressing problems, she only calls for tenderness, kindness and sympathy.
By the way, it has long been noticed that the "naive" live a long time. Almost all of these artists are elderly people who began to be creative at retirement or pre-retirement age. And, apparently, the ability to express themselves with paints somehow has a particularly beneficial effect on them. Or maybe the whole point is that naive art is the lot of optimists, to whom ailments are less likely to stick. “The more good you do,” explains Elena Andreevna, “the longer you will live in the world. That's how my dad taught me. And I only show good things to people, so that you and me will be happy”.
When asked what the magic and power of her paintings are, the artist answers: - In life, you don't have to fuss, rush, try to overtake someone, get ahead, climb some regular service or other mountain. Stop, look around you - and you will see how beautiful and wondrous life is, how much joy, pleasure, good mood it can bring to people. Probably, this is the meaning and essence of my work …
The magical feature of the paintings is the eyes of animals. So kind, so compassionate, pleading, asking for attention and sympathy. It becomes somehow uncomfortable from this look, from this prayer. As if you are guilty of something before the animals. Indeed, we are to blame before them, before the whole world. After all, evil comes only from a person, from him all misfortunes and losses. And it is quite right that Elena Andreevna called the exhibition "Peace to all!"
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