Still life with pumpkin and watermelon, 2023

Yaroshevich Anastasia  

Anastasia Oleksandrivna Yaroshevich, was born near the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region (Ukraine). Graduated from Kryvyi Rih Children's Art School No. 1. She continued her studies at the Kryvyi Rih National University at the Faculty of Arts, which she graduated with honors. From the fourth grade, she worked as an art history teacher in a children's art school. For six years, she taught art history, drawing, painting, and composition at the Faculty of Arts of KNU. She graduated from postgraduate studies in the specialty "Fine Art" at the Department of Art History and Theory of the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts. Since 2001, he regularly participates in international, all-Ukrainian, regional, city exhibitions and competitions in his hometown, Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi, Beijing, Svitlovodsk, Novaya Kakhovka, Mariupol, Horishnyi Plavnyi. Since 2005, a member of the Kryvyi Rih organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. He works as the head of the "Museum-apartment of the artist Hryhoriy Sinytsia" in the city of Kryvyi Rih. As an artist, he works in the field of easel painting and graphics. The works are in private collections and gallery collections in Ukraine and abroad - in Poland, Russia, China, the USA, Germany, Italy, as well as in the funds of the Kryvyi Rih Museum of History and Local History. So far, she has held 15 personal exhibitions. The total number of exhibitions in which she took part is 87. The artist works with different materials in different genres. He turns to portraits, landscapes, still lifes, plot and thematic paintings, animalistics, paints with oil, watercolor, gouache. A distinctive feature of her work is emotional saturation, which is manifested in color and tonal contrasts, sonorous color, often built on a combination of pure colors. In the paintings of Anastasia Yaroshevich, simultaneous realism and decorativeness of form coexist syncretically, and an expressive colorful arrangement. An important role is played by the stroke, which simultaneously models the shape and organizes the movement on the canvas. One of the leading means of expression, regardless of genre and material, is lighting, both natural and artificial. In the artist's still lifes, the materiality, primarily of glass objects, comes to the fore. When choosing characters for portraits, she prefers the purity of female and children's images. Filled with positive emotions, the open, lively, sincere work of Anastasia Yaroshevich fully corresponds to the most popular phenomenon in art and design today, Modern Positive Art.