Ekaterina (Katya) Medvedeva is a self-taught artist known throughout the world, a graphic artist. She writes her works in the genre of naive art, primitivism. But the work of Medvedeva goes beyond the boundaries of this direction. Her paintings broke the established idea of the artistic framework.
Ekaterina Ivanovna works and lives in Moscow. Creativity Medvedeva does not leave anyone indifferent to those who saw her paintings. In the direction it is close to the post-impressionism of Van Gogh. Her exhibitions, instead of the agreed pair of weeks, last several months, all the work is sold out completely.
Talented self-taught
Medvedeva has no special education. For this, she thanks fate. Despite the naive style and nature of the work, the creator of the paintings is a spiritually mature and professional person. She defends her right to her own vision of art, the expression of a worldview, has its own core.
The engine of her work is the desire to tell the audience about her experiences, dreams, hopes, loved ones. Ekaterina Ivanovna believes that only one who is unable to resist and not create can draw. Her paintings have many biblical subjects, but there are also simple portraits, everyday scenes. Katya calls herself a happy artist.
For her, every canvas is a spiritual holiday. Even about the real tragedies, her works are narrated in clear and bright language. A chicken hurrying after a rooster is an allegory about abandoned children. The ironic signature under the canvas raises a serious and difficult question. The viewer is invited to think, without blaming anyone.
At first, Katya was very worried because of ill-wishers and negative reviews. However, after the chagrin, there were always those who encouraged the artist. She believes that after parting with an evil person, his place is good. At one time, Ekaterina Ivanovna did not start painting on order. She chose her work.
Road to recognition
Katya Medvedeva was born in 1937 in a peasant family on January 10 in the Kursk region, in the village of Golubino. She lived near Belgorod. After the change of residence, Katya and her sisters were transferred to the mine settlement, then in 1946 Azerbaijan. Father left the family and disappeared. Katya soon found herself in a shelter.
The artist painted a picture called by her "The suffering of my mother." It depicts a woman in a scarf turning into a halo. The figure is wrapped in multi-colored contours. On the back of the canvas, a few words are written about the life story of the creator and heroine of her canvas. The girl studied well, she graduated from music school in the violin class.
A graduate became a weaver in 1954. Thanks to her chosen profession, she learned to feel the fabrics perfectly. Ekaterina Ivanovna can write on velvet and tarpaulin. She creates panels, attaches fabrics to the canvas, like character dresses.
In 1957, Medvedev got married. In 1961 she gave birth to a child, daughter Irina. In 1967, Ekaterina Ivanovna became a requisite in the folk theater of Kislovodsk. There, the future artist visited the art studio. In 1972, Catherine in Ulyanovsk graduated from a cultural enlightenment school.
Success
She began writing as an independent artist Medvedev in 1976. She made a business trip to her native village, visited her grandmother there and on September 8 held the first exhibition in her life in Golubin.
Since then, self-taught exhibitions have been regularly held. Professionals themselves invite her and buy up all the work. The first metropolitan opening day took place in 1981.
In 1982, eleven works of Medvedeva showed Chagall. He called the artist Russian talent and appreciated her special handwriting. In 1993, Katya’s canvases were shown in a separate exhibition in Paris.
A year later, they flaunted along with the works of Chagall and Matisse. In nice. In 2013, Ekaterina Ivanovna received a certificate of assignment to her category.
She was recognized as a professional. Medvedev has already lost track of her paintings. Many of her works went into private collections. The creator has written many works entitled "Freedom." She is sure that everything must be done with love and pay for everything done. Her paintings tell about the creator more than she says.
She believes that no one should be judged. But it is very important to be warmer, hot, cold, but just not to remain indifferent. Ekaterina Ivanovna helps everyone who addresses her. She managed to turn the biography almost forty sharply and pick up the palette.
