Russian fairy tales come to life in the pictures made by talented photographer Margarita Kareva from Ekaterinburg. Russian photo artist takes wonderful fantasy pictures. Her photos are incredibly believable scenes from different fairy tales. She creates her fantasy world full of mysteries and magic. Her photos are magical, beautiful, bright and memorable.
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Alexandra Putrya, one of the most extraordinary artists in the history of art, was born on December 2, 1977 in Poltava, USSR.
At the age of 11 Sasha left our world, but during her lifetime she managed to create 2279 works: 46 albums with drawings, cartoons and poetry, a great variety of crafts and even technical drawings. You know, her technical drawings were supposed to help adults reach the moon and make asphalt roads without cracks.
At the age of three Sasha began to draw and paint. For her drawing was as natural as sleeping and eating. Her father made an art studio from a small bedroom and tried to teach the girl, but she didn’t want! It was her imagination and born talent which helped her to draw such wonderful pictures.
When Sasha was five years old, she was diagnosed with leukemia. Trying to ignore the pain, Sasha began to devote more time to her favorite pastime.
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Aristotle said: “No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”
To tell the truth the genius and madness appear in parallel, they are twins. Historical examples perfectly illustrate this statement.
Let’s recall some great Russian mad men.
Mikhail Vrubel. Wounded soul of Russian Demon.
Everyone who sees Vrubel’s Demon cannot remain indifferent: powerful body, touching and beautiful face, eyes filled with terrible anguish. Despite the fact that this picture was painted long before the tragic events in the life of Vrubel, it shows all of the intensity of emotions and experiences that haunted the artist at the end of life.
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These wonderful toys come from Mariana Kopylova’s world of imagination.
Mariana is a graphic designer. She creates cute monsters and calls them “krakazyabras”. Krakazyabra is a toy made of wool, magical creature. Basically, they resemble alien creatures. Her toys are made in a single copy. These big-eyed creatures, or aliens, or unknown forest spirits are wonderful.
She calls herself a mediator between the world, where mythical creatures come from and to our world.
“I am a happy person. I create fabulous worlds, sew strange creatures and I am very fond of sand animation.”
Her style is a unique mixture of ethnic traditional Native American motifs and charming fairy tale illustrations. Violet-green shades of fantastic landscapes, cute animals, mysterious patterns… They attract and fascinate.
Mariana regularly participates in art festivals and hand-made exhibitions.
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Vera Mukhina was a Soviet sculptor, People’s Artist of the USSR (1943), member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1947). By the way, she is the winner of five Stalin Prizes.
Vera was born on June 19, 1889 in Riga (now Latvia) into the wealthy merchant family. Her ancestors lived in Riga after the war of 1812. When the little girl was two years old her mother died from tuberculosis. And father took Vera and her elder sister Maria to Feodosia, where they lived from 1892 to 1903. In Feodosia the future artist began drawing and painting. When their father died in 1903, the girls moved to Kursk, where their rich uncles lived. Vera was a very talented girl, she played the piano, drew and wrote poetry.
After school Mukhina moved to Moscow, where she studied painting.
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Zinaida Reich was a Russian actress, the woman, who won the hearts of two geniuses – Sergei Yesenin and Vsevolod Meyerhold. She was called the demon woman who destroyed the lives of two brilliant men.
Pretty girl was born on June 21, 1894 in Rostov-on-Don. Her father was a Social Democrat. In 1907, due to his participation in the revolutionary events, family was expelled from Odessa. Later, in 1913, the girl became a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. It was difficult for her mother to get a certificate of secondary education for the daughter. After that Zinaida went to Petrograd, and her parents moved to Orel.
In Petrograd Zinaida entered the Faculty of History and Literature, where she studied foreign languages and took lessons in sculpture. After graduation, the girl worked as a secretary-typist for the Delo Naroda newspaper, where she met her future husband, Sergei Yesenin. To tell the truth, she was the muse of the poet not so long – they got married in 1918 and 4 years later the marriage broke up.
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One of the most famous contemporary surrealists, Vladimir Kush creates a magical world of dreams and reality in his pictures. Bright and colorful, they take the audience to distant unknown worlds where nature and mechanics are mixed. Salvador Dali’s masterpieces inspired the artist to create such wonderful pictures.
At the age of 14 Vladimir painted one of his first pictures: the storm hits the island in the ocean, palm trees flutter in the wind – it was Hawaii, which later he would call his “promised land”. His dream became a reality. But there was reason to return home. The artist understood that the new project would require concentration of creative efforts, the flow of fantasy, imagination. And Hawaii, despite its beauty, couldn’t help him. Kush had to find himself again in his native land.
“Imagination doesn’t work there, where the sun shines so bright – he said, – I need gloomy winter Moscow.”
In 1996, Kush went to Moscow for some, according to his definition, “energy charge”. He was exhausted and depressed. Six years he spent in America, trying to sell his work, but without any result. It was a hard time for the artist, comparable only with the service in the Russian army. His short stay in winter Moscow played a big role.
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