Natalia Bogdanova. "Living Clay"
ARTinvestment.RU   18 мая 2011

The Russian Academy of Fine Arts yesterday opened an exhibition of ceramics national artist of Russia Natalia Bogdanova "Living Clay", dedicated to the 80 anniversary of the master

Arts, May 18 - June 5, 2011

The Russian Academy of Fine Arts was opened yesterday Anniversary Exhibition People's Artist of Russia Natalia Bogdanova "Living Clay", dedicated to the 80 anniversary of the master.

NATALIA BOGDANOVA Soaring birds 1994. Fireclay, salt glaze, enamel. Source: rah.ru

Natalia Bogdanova contribution to the formation of arts and crafts of contemporary Russia can hardly be overestimated. In 1960 Natalia Bogdanova (b. 1931) pioneered an innovative direction in the domestic ceramics - decorative plastic-free forms. This truly unique author ceramics brought in Russian arts and crafts related to the creative possibilities of traditional materials and caused a burst of creative research.

Immediately after the Moscow Art Institute. VISurikova (1958), where her teachers were the biggest Soviet sculptor Nikolai N. Tomsk , M. Manizer, D. Schwartz, Natalia Bogdanova chosen a path ceramist. Already in its first stand-alone works that have appeared in exhibitions in the early 1950's, was seen the desire for freedom of plastic expression. Personal retrospective in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts covers more than half a century of intense creative activity masters.

Works NN Bogdanova well illustrate the diversity of plastic options, which gives an ancient technique - clay, hardened in the fire: this household items and decorative items, and animalistic sculpture. Often, works of the artist, inclined to monumentalistskim decisions add up to a quasi-metaphorical ensembles. Initially, a realistic image of organically grow into a symbol, but with the mundane objects takes a sudden metamorphosis.

NATALIA BOGDANOVA Spring. 1999 Pottery. Source: rah.ru

For individual handwriting NN Bogdanova characterized by a desire for a large scale, generalized volume, filled with inner tension. Like the sculptors of antiquity, she prefers a monochrome ceramics, most often referring to the white color, and only touches of color, and gold salts accentuating details. Monumental plastic language allows confer an unusual sense of the traditional stuff: in the song "Moscow. Bell Tolls "ordinary teapot recalls the old Russian white stone temple, and in the song" Motion "degenerated into a vase like the columns and the fountain bowl. Metaphorical thinking to see the author makes a combination of verticals and kruglyaschihsya forms an almost utilitarian vessels image of wind instruments (the song "Music"), gives rise to associations with the harmony of bass and treble.

NATALIA BOGDANOVA Music. Triptych. 1998 chamotte, high-fired, enamel. Source: rah.ru

Numerous studies Bogdanova, animal painter, not only beat the shape of animals and birds that can liven up and beautify a functional thing, but also convey gazing skyward (song "Soaring Birds"), solemnity ("Lions guard the city"), the idea of ​​an eternal cycle of life ("Caravan") and the irrepressible desire for freedom ("By the Sea. gulls on the shore »).

NATALIA BOGDANOVA on the beach. 1998 Grog, enamel, glaze. Source: rah.ru

stand out work in the genre of portraiture and thematic compositions in which the NN Bogdanova acts as a sculptor of the classical school ("Portrait mother, "Mom thought," a new dish). Gentle humor stains such works as "Galina Volchek" or "hand beast (Portrait of the son )».

NATALIA BOGDANOVA Portrait of a son. 1989 Grog. Source: rah.ru

Works Natalia Bogdanova included in the collections of the State Historical Museum, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art Museum, State Museum of Ceramics and Farmstead Kuskovo, State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno and other Russian and foreign museums, as well as in private collections.

The exhibition includes over 100 works of sculpture and decorative art from the collection of the author. Among them are songs from the series "Theatre" Contemporary ", the cycles of" Trinity "and" Millennium (the 1000 anniversary of Christianity in Russia), and numerous decorative series ("The Sound of Music," "Wave", "Architecture of onions), mounted work ( "Motherhood", "Portrait of my son", "Mama," Still Life "Workshop »).

Source : rah.ru