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Anastasia Vostrezova, 1981 | Ballet Dancers

Russian painter Анастасия Вострецова works in a variety of genres: portrait, landscape, still-life.
Vostrezova's true creativity is evident in her scenes of Russian everyday life, festivals and portraits.
The characters presence of mood and soul are delicately transferred on her canvas.
Her works are characterised by the constant search of the illusive language of the soul and the painting culture that changes constantly.


Anastasia Vostrezova was born in a family of artists.
She spent all of her childhood in Moscow and in Pereslavl-Zalesski where her family had a summer house.


Statement:
- I see painting as the art of depicting the world in its beauty, be it a person, landscape or flower. Everything has its own color, its own mood, its own soul.
In the physical world, through the perfection of form, the divine manifests itself in beauty.


Beauty reveals and depicts what is eternal. In my paintings, I try to follow this practice in an effort to ensure that in the hearts of viewers, the painting arouses a world of thoughts, emotions - happy or sad, but always poetic and sublime.


Not always and not in every artwork can this result be achieved, but this is the main objective, without which painting becomes meaningless.
I spend a lot of time in the ballet theater, and in the auditorium, as well as backstage during performances and rehearsals.


It is impossible not to love this magnificent scenic world.
I often talk with the artists, musicians, people of ballet and I am very close to the words of the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, addressed towards all ballet dancers and artists alike … and even towards all people: Let’s dance more, and try to find more beauty in the dance as well as in life.
A true artist - whether he dances or does something else - always strives for beauty.


So let us become one with the world of true artists, just as we become one with the world of dancers, because by replacing ugliness with beauty in visual images and intangible areas, we come a little closer to happiness and completeness...

Education
  • 2001 - 2008 Faculty of Painting and Restoration, Studio of professor M. Devyatov Saint-Petersburg Academy of Arts, Russia
  • 2006 Creative trip to Italy Anastasia visited famous museums of Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, archaeological zone of Pompei and Herculanum and the island Capri.
  • 1996 - 2000 Faculty of Painting, Studio of I. Simonov (Ioganson's student) Ekaterinburg I. D. Shadr Memorial Art College, Russia



Anastasia Vostrezova è nata in una famiglia di artisti ad Ekaterinburg.
Ha trascorso la sua infanzia a Mosca ed a Pereslavl-Zalesski, dove la sua famiglia aveva una casa estiva.
Si è laureata presso l'I. Shadr Art College, Ekaterinburg (2000) e ha proseguito la sua formazione artistica a San Pietroburgo.


Nel 2008, la Vostrezova si è laureata all'Accademia di Belle Arti I. Repin di San Pietroburgo, dove ha studiato nello studio del professor M. Devyatov.
Ora vive e lavora a San Pietroburgo.
La varietà di generi in cui lavora sono il ritratto, la natura morta, il paesaggio e le composizioni figurative.


Il posto speciale nell'arte della Vostrezova lo prendono le scene di vita russa, il teatro, i temi spagnoli e ritratti, in cui cerca di riflettere l'umore e le emozioni intime degli esseri umani.
Principalmente, la Vostrezova lavora con i colori ad olio ed utilizza anche tecniche pastello.


La Vostrezova partecipa regolarmente a mostre di associazioni creative come il "Peredvijniki del 21° secolo", a diverse mostre d'arte a San Pietroburgo, Ekaterinburg e altre città della Federazione Russa, nonché in Italia e negli Stati Uniti.
Le sue opere sono vendute a collezionisti privati in Grecia, Paesi Bassi ed India e sono esposte negli archivi d'arte dell'Accademia delle Arti di San Pietroburgo, che è la più grande istituzione artistica della Russia.