Saturday, April 18, 2009

Ponomareva - Tatar Girl


PONOMAREVA Natalia Petrovna
1895-1942

"Was born in Kazan in 1895. Her father was the known historian, the archeologist, the founder of a collection of tools of the Stone Age. She was intelligent and noble family, however, as well as in many Kazan Russian families, relationship with Tatars. When she studies a grammar school, Natalia arrives in the Kazan Academy of arts. The painter Feshin considers her very talented, admires her picturesque ways, nobleness of the colour. Her competitive degree picture was a success among artists. She was the semifantastic semisubject work representing a bowl in water in beams of calling or sunrise. She take influence Vrubel, El Greco, Cezanne, were her favourite artists. All her life she has a fervour, diligence and a special acute sense of own advantage. In the 20-es she taught at school drawing any time. Has died during blockade of Leningrad in 1942."

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