A traditionally staged still-life picture, with dried flowers, vegetables, jars, drapes and a complex background, can be given a special look under the brush of a real artist. While picturing the composition during night-time, Julia has achieved an incredibly decorative effect.
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The Eastern aroma of the painting is created not by the elegance of shapes but by the common and lack of details.The thinnest lace of oriental patterns does not work – the patterns are large and nominal. And not even abundance of outlandish fruits.
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(born 1984)
Maria comes from a well-known family of artists and musicians. She started to learn fine art at the age of 5 at The Hermitage Studio. Later she graduated from St. Petersburg State Academic Lyceum of Art, and in 2010 from the Russian Academy of Arts (a.k.a. Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture), St. Petersburg. She has studied under the instruction of I. Uralov, N. Fomin and Eduard Kochergin. In 2006 she was commended by the Academic Board for composition.
Maria has been a member of The Artists Union of Russia since 2014.
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Autumn in a small provincial Russian town with the church of white walls. Birds flew away to the South long ago, the harvest time is over and the breath of coming Winter is getting more and more evident. In spite of the title, there is no feeling of bad weather here.
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The subject of the work is quite simple – a motley multicolored rooster sits on the fence that is supported with giant heads of sunflowers. In this work we can feel Julia’s “monumental mind”: the powerful modeling of volumes, the precision of the composition that is decorative by form and realism to the core, and bright and lively color, of course.
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A cottage “dacha” in Russia is a small summer house with a garden for a city family. First “dachas” were known in the beginning of XVIII century in the days of Peter the Great. They were like homesteads that were given by the Russian czar to his favorites. During this time the word “dacha” entered the language: the meaning of “dacha” comes just from the verb “davat” (to give).
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Not only the artist’s special talent for composition and her outstanding feeling of the colour but also her amazing poetic perception of reality are worth mentioning. Her works can be compared to interesting lyrical essays describing the stories of the most ordinary things by the means of painting. Usually these painted stories are about the Russian nature and life of Russian villages. We see a usual summer day in the country. The small wooden bridge is thrown across the stream. From the first glance the subject of the picture is simple and unremarkable, but how lyrical and sincere the picture is. Being near the canvas makes you feel as if you are dissolving in its world.
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A couple of words about my technique: In the beginning I feel like a magician who conjures over the canvas. I put an underpainting, textured by a palette knife, wait for the texture to dry out… or not sometimes. Then I glaze, apply the paint pasty or with a dry brush over the texture, then glaze again and lay potal… or compose spots of potal on the sheet, to be precise.
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With this painting Maria returns to her set of decorative works of small formats. Here we can see a still-life picture of lemons and greens on a colorful linen tablecloth. Common shapes, contrast of colors, precision of the composition and the lightweight brush – altogether give a decorative, lush and festive look to the picture.
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One of the interesting features of Château de Villandry is a market-garden that has been made in the tradition of regular French gardens. The history of such gardens has started back in the Medieval Age in monasteries where monks combined the cultivation of flowers and vegetables. At Villandry market-garden there are more than 40 kinds of vegetables and there is a special school that researches and supports traditions of market-gardening.
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