OUTSIDER AND NAIVE ART
Naive art in painting
Naive art is a style of creativity of talented people who for some reason have not gotten professional art education. This notion is often used as a synonym for the primitive art style. These are close directions in painting. The only difference is that artists of the «primitive» art style have a professional art education.
Variants of naive art are very diverse, but its common features can be clearly distinguished: freshness, unusual spirituality of the world perception, imitation of professional "big" styles - on the verge of mugging.
Artists of naive art style often take their plots from the surrounding them life, folklore, religious mythology or their own imagination. It is easier for them than for many professional artists to make a spontaneous, intuitive not hampered by cultural and social rules and prohibitions creativeness. As a result, original, surprisingly pure, poetic and lofty artistic worlds appear. In these worlds, there is a somewhat ideal, naive harmony between the nature and man.
Naive art combines the original brightness of figurative imagination, the freshness and sincerity of the world perception with the lack of professional skills in drawing, painting, composition, modeling, etc.
Naive art, as a rule, is spiritually optimistic, life affirming, multifaceted and diverse, has a rather high aesthetic significance.
Naive art is touching and easy, however it is incredibly sincere.
The unique world of artists-outsiders... Geniuses or gone mad
Outsider art is one of the most honest and sincere trends in art.
Artists-outsiders have the entire emotions primary, there are no second, third fourth, and there is only one emotion and the most important. There is no difference what way and with what kind of tools to implement their own, unusual, beyond the «normal» vision. It can be a stone, a tin can of a drink, an iron rod or children's tights. If this material allows the artist to express his message, he uses it not thinking about its origin. And it will be a masterpiece, albeit original, for an amateur, but a masterpiece. Outsiders are free not only in the choice of materials, but also in the choice of techniques to perform their paintric art.
Naive art in painting
Naive art in painting
Naive art in painting
Naive art in painting
One of her favorite themes is «Rayski Sad». However, the true artist is unlimitedly multifaceted. In the creative world of Alevtina Pyzhova, full of magic, mythical creatures and sexual tension, there is a place for contrast between the hot wild jungle with wild animals and the frozen beauty of the Russian village.
Artworks by Pyzhova can be found in private and museum collections around the world: Russia, Israel, America, Germany, and France, CIS countries, Holland, Belgium and others. The record number - about 600 paintings belong to only one collector.
Among the hundreds of paintings by different artists, the Pyzhova’s manner of painting can be found out at once. Bright local colors, mythological heroes and fantastic plots distinguish her artistic world in the style of a folklore tale. Paintings by Pyzhova (Пыжова) are filled with a special sincerity and naive simplicity.
Naive art in painting
Naive art in painting
Naive art in painting
Naive art in painting
She is called the Russian Brueghel in his most joyful manifestation. Dina is a professional monumental artist. However, academic painting did not become fundamental in her creative career. Dina Eltseva found herself in the style of primitivism and feels great in it.
The themes of the paintings are purely folk. Dina depicts the Russian heartland with the eternal Russian dream - «everything at once, a lot and fell from the sky.» Therefore, if the villagers find a mushroom in the forest, which is of incredible size and you can take it, cut it, divide it and it would provide all people for a long time. The rivers of wine, cakes as high as the house where you can live at the same time, and the fish is of whale’s size. It is noteworthy that the artist treats such attitudes with sympathy. "After all, this is not an evil will and not a vile act," she says. "And the mentality of the Russian people must be taken for granted, with love, and no one needs to be altered."
The heroes of the artist's paintings are village dwellers - simple peasants and women. They all live in the ideal world that Eltseva created for them.
Bright simple colors, joy on the faces of the villagers, giant fruits, an ideal rural life, as an impossible dream of universal happiness.
Connoisseurs and lovers of painting see in the artworks of the artist Dina Eltseva an expression of the Russian national character.