Tsvetkova V. "Church"

"Church"

Author: Valentina Tsvetkova 

Oil on cardboard

 13.5 x 21.5 cm 

Valentina Petrovna Tsvetkova (1917-2007) was born in Astrakhan, in the family of a priest. I've been drawing since I was a child. Here, in 1935, she graduated from the art school under the guidance of Academician of painting Pavel Vlasov. In 1937, the young artist first came to the Southern coast of Crimea, to Yalta. The amazing nature and the special Crimean climate conquered her from the first days. Returning here again, on the eve of the war, she stayed there for the rest of her life. Just as the south of France influenced Cezanne and Van Gogh, Tahiti influenced Gauguin, so the hot Crimea determined the content and pictorial and stylistic features of Tsvetkova's art. She is called one of the best masters of still life in Ukraine. Her still life is special: flowers or generous gifts of the earth, the artist has always painted against the background of the Crimean landscape.