Natalia Chernogolova is a
Belarusian artist.
Biography
Chernogolova was born on 15 May 1954 in
Zhitkovichi
Zhytkavichy ( be, Жыткавічы, russian: Житковичи ''Zhitkovichi'', pl, Żydkowicze) is a town in the Gomel Region of Belarus, an administrative center of Zhytkavichy District
Žytkavičy Rajon, Žytkavicki Rajon ( be, Жытка ...
,
Gomel Region,
USSR (now Belarus). She graduated from the
Minsk School of Art in 1976 and went on to study in the Art and Drawing Department of the
Pedagogical Institute in Vitebsk, graduating in 1982. In 1989 she was elected to the USSR Union of Artists, undertaking various official commissions.
Natalia paints without preliminary sketches or drawings. "Painting is her life. She finds it impossible not to paint. She works with passion and vitality, and her love of life is evident in her work. Natalia has developed a way of painting using only her fingers. This, underpinned by her long classical training, enables her to capture the vigour and spirit that she sees in the subjects she has chosen."
[''Art for Life'' Catalogue, Christie's Auction, 2 April 2007 (Lot 041: Oil abstract 48 x 36cm)]
She first visited the United Kingdom in 2005 when she created many vivid oil paintings of street scenes in Congleton and Cheshire landscapes. Her
neo-expressionist
Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called ''Transavantgarde'', ''Junge Wilde'' or ''Neue Wilden'' ('The new wild ones'; 'New ...
paintings appear in collections and galleries in the US, UK, Germany, Belarus, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Canada and Israel. She lives in Brest, Belarus.
Exhibitions
* 1976—1988 — Brest, Minsk — Belarus
* 1988 — Gurzufa — Crimea
* 1989 — Minsk, Brest — Belarus
* 1990 — Minsk, Grodno — Belarus
* 1991 — Nałęczów — Poland
* 1992 — Nałęczów, Katowice, Puławy, Gołąb — Poland; Brest - Belarus; Ostrowiec, Biała — Poland
* 1993 — Zakopane, Krynica, Nałęczów — Poland
* 1994 — Nałęczów — Poland; Brest — Belarus
* 1995 — Brest — Belarus
* 1996 — Zakopane — Poland
* 1997 — Brest, Minsk — Belarus
* 1998 — Brest, Minsk — Belarus
* 1999 — Siedlce — Poland
* 2000 — Puławy — Poland
* 2001 — Biała — Poland
* 2002 — Puławy — Poland
* 2005 — Brest — Belarus
* 2005 — Galeria Andre (www.galeriaandre.com) — Warsaw and worldwide
* 2006 — Manchester Central Library, UK: ''Colours of Love'', 25 July-29 September
* 2009 — National Gallery Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus
* 2009 — Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, UK, 19–21 June
* 2010 — Todmorden Fine Art, Todmorden, Lancashire, UK, March
* 2014 — Belarusian Palace of Art, Minsk
External links
Natalia Chernogolova official web-siteNatalia Chernogolova
Saatchi Gallery
featured artist Natalia Chernogolova
Todmorden Fine Art.
16 August 2011
Notes and references
*Belarus National State TV and Radio
*Radio Belarus
*Galeria Andre
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1954 births
Living people
20th-century Belarusian artists
21st-century Belarusian artists
Belarusian women artists