Central House of Artists, 13-26 December 2011
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, 2nd Floor, Room 14b

13-26 December 2011 at the Central House of Artists (2nd floor, Room 14b) will be the second solo exhibition Svetlana account Atakhanova.

SVETLANA Atakhanova The path to the sea. 2007. Watercolour. 30 x 40 Source: Press-release

SVETLANA Atakhanova Roof 2011. Watercolor and oil pastel. 61 x 85 Source: Press-release

The exhibition includes landscapes , still lifes and genre scenes, in the technique of classical multi watercolor - the leading technology in the artist. « For me, watercolor - painting, even on paper. In watercolors enormous potential that has not fully disclosed, despite the long history of », - says Svetlana Atakhanova.

Atakhanova - Member of the Artists section of monumental and decorative art of the Moscow Union of Artists and teacher based on the composition and design schedules of training courses of the Moscow State Art-Industrial Academy. Stroganov.

SVETLANA Atakhanova Umbrian landscape. 2009 Watercolour. 30 x 58 Source: Press-release

SVETLANA Atakhanova summer evening in Nerekhta. 2011 Watercolor and oil pastel. 48 x 104 Source: Press-release

Filled with quiet lyricism, fragility and fragrant joy of living flowers, foliage, landscapes in the works of Svetlana's fascinating - fascinating element of whimsical watercolors, a counterpoint of grace and strength, the ratio of light and dark tones. At the final stage of the creation of the artist balances the tonal intensity and manipulates colors to accents.

« I love watercolor with its transparency, fluidity, the ability to improvise , - says Svetlana. - This technique requires an internal discipline, the ability to quickly and efficiently organize the relationship of color patches, while retaining the freshness and beauty of the painting. I like allaprima, then you can increase glaze color accents, creating a space of light and color as the mosaic field. In order to image a more expressive, I use oil pastels ».

SVETLANA Atakhanova A quiet evening 2010. Watercolour. 79 x 58 Source: Press-release

SVETLANA Atakhanova Gogol Boulevard 2004-2009. Watercolor on paper. 43 x 50 Source: Press-release

successively applying layers of colorful and lessiruya, Svetlana creates a shimmering surface of the dark or light colors. Contrasting combinations cause stress, make the color "vibrate" and glow, attracting the attention of the viewer. The artist selects what is needed, creating a vivid image, intuitively identifying abstract relationships of color, texture and shape.

softness and poetic lightness palette embodies the spiritual world of the author. Renoir wrote, «For me painting should be a pleasant thing, funny and charming. Yes, lovely. In life and so many things unpleasant, so we made them even more ». Bold and bright color in works like Svetlana releases strong and deep feelings of joy author.

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autumn rains. 2009
Watercolour. 42 x 59
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provincial town. 2008
Watercolour. 29 x 40
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artist inspired by the faces of the Earth are created in his historical landscapes Constantine Bogayevsky - scorched by the desert sun, caves and cliffs, ancient ruins, bustling enormous trees, extinct, the fantastic ruins of cities and fortresses. In his later works, after a visit to Italy, we feel « prayerful silence and joy of the morning » (Voloshin), and transformed the earth before us in all its glory. Those of his works - « tapestries » (K. Bogaevsky) - imbued with the same love for the earth, which feels and Svetlana: « For me, the earth - a living creature, and now she is sick ... I think that the artist, showing images of our beautiful Mother Earth, is able to help her. Man must learn to see beauty, then he may be able to save her ».

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