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"Idyll" by Svetlana Valueva
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Edition Size - 295
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Svetlana Valueva
Born in Moscow on the 24th of October, 1966, Ms. Valueva remembers drawing and painting as a toddler. Ms. Valueva’s father, an artist, recognized her talent and became her first and most important teacher, encouraging her to paint alongside him in his studio
Thirteen years of state structured curriculum taught by both the academic school and institute established Ms. Valueva's art and drawing skills in "social realism". Like many children of the arts, Ms. Valueva was accepted at art school at age six. She began her formal training and two years later took part in local, countrywide and international juried exhibitions. At the age of eight she entered a Cuban International exhibition, receiving a gold medal and 10 lbs. of Cuban sugar as her prize.
In 1975 at nine, she received the Gran Prix at the annual International exhibition in Delhi, India. This juried exhibition of children's paintings, established in 1952, grew to 150,000 children from 35 countries exhibiting work in 1975. In 1977 Svetlana received 3rd place, and again in 1979 she won the gold (Gran Prix) at this prestigious event.
1977 was a memorable year for Ms. Valueva as a documentary about outstanding achievers in art, featuring her, was shown in movie theaters across Russia. The same year she was highlighted on the front page of a popular monthly magazine "Soviet Union". Few people achieve such an honor much less at the age of 11.
Ms. Valueva had her first solo show in a prestigious Moscow gallery in 1993. Influenced by photographs left by her great grandmother, a ballerina at the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet Theater, and by her great grandfather, an officer in the Czar's army, the twelve paintings generated immediate interest. A Japanese publisher approached her concerning the production of the collection, purchasing all the exhibited paintings and requesting more.
Nostalgia for the elevated, magnificent "silver age" of Russia has drawn her to the past, a period known in the West as Art Nouveau,
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