One of the Eastern teachings states that there is a huge difference in perception between a person looking at an elephant and an elephant seeing a person. A person knows certain things about elephants and already views them through the prism of this knowledge, but an elephant has no idea who a person is, and therefore perceives him without distortion. Based on this, every inhabitant of the planet, according to Eastern wisdom, should strive for the same crystal purity of perception of the world as the aforementioned elephant. Then things will acquire their true meaning and sparkle with the fullness of colors, sounds, and possibilities.
Here lives a seven-year-old girl in Australia Aelita Andre, and she was able to convey her childish, pure perception of the world to us, adults, through her unusually talented works. The girl is an experienced artist: she created her first painting at 9 months, not yet able to walk. Dad, Australian artist Michael Andre, left a blank canvas in the living room, she crawled to it and began squeezing paints out of tubes... And what she got as a result of this mixing brought the little one into indescribable delight.
Since then, thanks to the care of her parents, Aelita had everything for painting: her own spacious workshop, a huge number of canvases of different sizes, a lot of acrylic paints, powdered dyes, sparkles, stars, butterflies, kitchen sponges, foil, various toys, details, beads, beads and all sorts of things, so that the inquisitive child’s mind and the boundless imagination, inherent only in a child, find their splash on the canvas. The young artist is very serious and concentrated, her movements seem to be dictated by childish wisdom. With the responsibility of a creator, she creates more and more masterpieces.
But her paintings are recognized as highly artistic, according to critics, artists, and art critics around the world. They recognize that color, composition, movement, and liveliness play a special role in her work.
Aelita begins creating around the canvas with a game, into which she immerses herself as if in a serious meditation. Concentratingly arranging figures on the canvas, pouring rivers of paint, mixing different textured components, she is captivated by the story that is born in her head, simultaneously transferring it to the canvas. The artist says that her paintings are abstract, but they contain concrete objects about which she can tell a whole story.
Aelita is the smallest professional artist on the planet. Her first exhibition took place when she was two years old. The talent, of course, was passed on to her, first of all, at the genetic level. After all, in addition to her father, an artist, her mother, Russian emigrant Nika Kalashnikova, is a photographer, and her grandfather was also a professional painter. The brilliant little girl gives her viewer the opportunity to look at the world with the pure eyes of a child again, as they once did in childhood.
Her canvases, made using the technique of expressive abstractionism, sometimes resemble portholes looking directly into space. Fabulous scatterings of intergalactic dust and the flickering of distant planets tear us away from the Earth, relieving us of gravity. The pictures whisper to us that it is never too late to become a child again, to break through multi-layered rules, norms, teachings about understanding the essence of things and see the world in the form of a huge, alluring space, where many mysteries lurk that we still have to solve... But , with whom she is compared, said:
“It took me my whole life to learn to draw like a child”
The girl was luckier: her parents recognized her talent as a painter in time and created all the conditions for its development. Aelita Andre has her whole life ahead of her, and she already possesses the skill that the great Pablo dreamed of and is improving it every day.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia: Aelita Andre, an Australian abstract artist, known for her surrealist painting style, is a member of the National Association for the Visual Arts of Australia. Everything is fine, but we are talking about a 4-year-old girl)))
Yesterday I came across an article about this little girl, and ended up stuck on the Internet for an extra hour, at least the topic seemed so unusual and controversial to me.
Aelita is the daughter of Australian artist Michael Andre and Russian photographer Nika Kalashnikova. The baby started drawing at 9 months, and her parents (well done!) created ideal conditions for her to continue practicing her interesting painting.
There is a video where she paints: her face, her hair, her clothes are absolutely smeared with paints, she is concentrated and serious, in a separate studio room, completely “decorated” with colored blots. On the floor there is a large canvas (with a painted background) and a sea of jars, tubes, brushes, all of professional quality and in a large assortment. The child truly creates, without fear of getting dirty and ruining something. A spectacle that can be watched for a long time)))
Some works have names - this is "Dinosaur Island"
This is the surreal "Eagle" performed by Aelita
What is most unpleasantly surprising are the comments - some say “an ordinary children’s daub”, some recognize the talent, but doubt the authenticity of the authorship and the fact that the artist father does not take part in their creation. Some people write that my child would like to have such a studio, and I would like so much free time and money to study with him...
There is an interesting statement that is most appropriate here: “The difference between an abstract artist and you is that you only “could”, but he painted.”
In June of this year, Aelita’s personal exhibition took place in New York, entitled “The Miracle of Color.” Her paintings are selling successfully - the amount of 32 paintings sold amounted to more than 800 thousand dollars. Some people spit, not wanting to recognize children’s blots as art, some buy and hang paintings on the wall, admiring and calling it surrealism, close to the work of Dali.
The baby made a splash))) I hope a wonderful future awaits her, and the most inveterate skeptics will be convinced of her talent. And talent, even without the makings of genius, can be developed in exactly the same ways as Aelita’s parents.
Nine years ago, a girl with a unique talent was born. Her name is Aelita Andre. The youngest artist in the world has already sold paintings worth over one million dollars.
short biography
A talented girl from Australia. Her family lives in the city of Melbourne. The little artist’s birthday in winter is January 9th. She turns 10 next year.
Aelita Andre's parents are also involved in art. Her dad is the famous Australian artist Michael Andre, and her mother, Nika Kalashnikova, works on creating artistic photographs. The mother of a gifted girl is from Russia.
Hobbies and passions
If you don’t take into account her special talent, then Aelita Andre is a completely ordinary girl. She learned two languages: English and Russian (she prefers to speak the latter). The young artist loves chocolate most of all.
Nine-year-old Aelita also enjoys playing the piano and attends gymnastics training. She enjoys making crafts, which she often brings to kindergarten. The artist enjoys watching TV. Like all children her age, she loves programs about animals and cartoons. She is especially interested in videos about dinosaurs. The girl is interested in astronomy and often watches the program “Cosmos”.
Discovery of talent
Drawing is a hobby for the whole Andre family. Little Aelita watched her parents’ creative process from early childhood. She saw adults painting on large canvases directly on the floor. One day, Michael Andre, while working on another painting, left a piece of paper unattended for some time. When he returned to the canvas, he saw that the nine-month-old baby had crawled to the paints on her own and was simply smearing them with her hands. Aelita Andre did this with such delight and passion that the surprised father allowed his daughter to continue drawing.
Since then, the girl constantly created with her parents, who gave her separate sheets of paper for this.
The rapid development of the artist's career
In 2009, when the baby was not yet 2 years old, her mother took Aelita Andre’s drawings and showed them to her friend Mark Jamison, director of the Brunsic gallery. Nika Kalashnikova did not tell the art critic who the author of the works was in order to avoid bias. Mark Jamison appreciated several paintings and exhibited them in a group exhibition in Melbourne. When the public found out how old the artist was, everyone was shocked. Some made accusations against the parents, allegedly using their daughter for profit. But Nika and Michael never forced the little girl to draw; it was entirely her initiative.
Just a few months later, the artist Aelita Andre became famous in China. Her paintings were exhibited at the group Masterpieces of the Australian girl created a sensation in the art world. One of her paintings was sold for 24 thousand dollars.
Solo exhibitions
Five years ago, the whole world learned about a young talent named Aelita Andre. The artist's works were exhibited at the Agora Gallery in the USA. The personal vernissage took place in the summer of 2011 in New York, it lasted for 22 days. The exhibition was organized at the expense of the author’s personal funds.
The exhibition included more than twenty paintings, nine of which were immediately sold for more than 30 thousand dollars. The cost of the paintings varied within $10,000. After such success, the girl began to be called “baby Picasso”, “phenomenon”, “prodigy”. The exhibition was called The Prodigy of Color.
Three months later, Aelita’s paintings went to Italy. In September 2011, the second individual exhibition of the young artist was opened in the city of Tuscany. Most of the paintings sold were added to the exhibits of private collectors.
Recognition by world art critics
Michael Andre and Nika Kalashnikova support their daughter in every possible way. Her parents provided the young artist with everything she needed. They equipped her with a modern workshop and bought a wide variety of paints and glitter.
Artist Aelita Andre works in the style of expressive abstract art. Her paintings have received worldwide recognition. Well-known critics and art experts praised the girl’s paintings as highly artistic. In their opinion, movement and color, composition and liveliness play a special role in Aelita’s masterpieces.
The young talented artist approaches her work in her own way. She comes up with a story, which she then puts on canvas. In her paintings, the girl uses not only acrylic paints, but also other materials, for example, tree bark or branches, dinosaur figures or balls.
The little Australian artist herself determines the place and time for her creativity. Sometimes she has a desire to paint even at night. In the midst of a creative peak, Aelita Andre (whose paintings are recognized as highly artistic) can be distracted from work for several hours. But after some time, the girl always returns to the canvas to finish her next masterpiece.
Some art critics have repeatedly expressed doubts about the full authorship of the artist’s paintings; they are too good. In their opinion, one of the baby’s parents could have had a hand in the masterpieces. But Nika and Michael claim that their daughter is simply obsessed with painting and they do not interfere with her creation process.
Paintings by the youngest artist in St. Petersburg
This year, on September 2, Aelita Andre’s personal exhibition “Music of Infinity” opened in Russia. The works of the Australian phenomenon artist were placed in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in the cultural capital of the Russian Federation - St. Petersburg. The exhibition features more than fifty paintings by Aelita, collected over all her years of creativity. Museum visitors also saw photographic works, sculptures, personal belongings and pencil sketches of the artist.
The exhibition also features sound paintings by Aelita Andre. A nine-year-old girl independently and unconsciously created a new movement in the art world, “magical expressionism.” She combined painting and sound.
According to the organizers' plan, "Music of Infinity" was supposed to last a month. But Russian viewers liked the works of the youngest artist on the planet so much that the exhibition was extended for another ten days.
Paintings painted by young Aelita
Over the course of eight years of creativity, the Australian girl has painted many canvases. She presented such films as “Dinosaur Island”, “Cosmic Ocean”, “String City”, “Fairy Island”, “Peacock in Space”, “Kangaroo”, “Southern Cross”.
According to Aelita Andre herself, she will draw for the rest of her life. She needs painting like she needs air and water. The phenomenon girl plans to present more than one masterpiece to the world. We wish her good luck and inspiration!
4-year-old artist Aelita Andre. Illustration: teaminspiration.org.uk
Source: New forum of fine arts HalloArt.ru
Abstract artist Aelita Andre.
Miracle baby or miracle scam?
ORIGINAL SOURCE
“In New York, an exhibition of works by a 4-year-old girl opened in a gallery in the Chelsea area. Her paintings are so interesting to adults that they buy her paintings for tens of thousands of dollars.
As Channel One reports, the girl’s success is being discussed by the entire American press. Aelita Andre is the daughter of an Australian artist and a Russian musician. She started drawing before she could walk. When the parents noticed that the child was not only obsessed, but that his work also seemed interesting, they turned to an expert for advice. “He looked at the paintings and said: yes, I really like it, I would like to exhibit it,” says the girl’s mother, Nika Kalashnikova. After the gallery owner found out that the author of the paintings was only 1.5 years old, he did not back down. The same thing happened in New York 2.5 years later.
The children's triumph gave rise to serious discussion. Critics literally shout: “Children and high art are incompatible! Art is the result of meaningful action!” ….
However, galleries around the world are already lining up with invitations. Aelita Andre can rightfully be considered the youngest professional artist in the history of art."
"Drawn" by Aelita Andre at the age of 2:
Aelita Andre, Geisha in Red Komono - 120cmx70cm
One of the users New forum, performing under the nickname Tuareg, was not too lazy to copy reproductions of more than a dozen paintings, which, as parents assure, were drawn by Aelita between the ages of one and three years. Therefore, if the samples presented here are not enough for you, you can look at additional reproductions either on our website or on Aelita’s personal website. This is the comment I wrote Tuareg, having studied the child’s creativity:
“The site is poorly made. Could you order a professionally made website for the sale of at least one painting?! And the photos should be in focus...
I have already formed an opinion about this prodigy. Pay attention to the large formats of the paintings - all of them are larger than a meter (do not confuse inches and centimeters!). Look at the technique using small parts that should not be given to children at this age.”
It would seem that the parents did everything possible to prove to potential fans of the young artist’s work that Aelita draws her paintings on her own. But here’s what a forumist under the nickname noticed: Posav after looking at photographs and videos posted in large numbers on the Internet:
“When I watched the video, it turned out to be not as interesting as in the illustration. The child sits on his knees and pours liquid at his feet from helpfully placed bottles. There is no conscious action visible there. Well, of course, the background color, the color in the bottles and glitter, accessories were chosen by the parents. It looks like commercial promotion, it's a scam. Although, who knows, maybe this girl will become an artist.
...there is a finished background lying on the floor, and a child is pouring paint from bottles. In fact, it looks like drawings of a trained elephant. But in America they buy such drawings of elephants. Why not buy the child’s drawings like these?”
"Drawn" by Aelita Andre at the age of 2:
Aelita Andre, Dinosaur Islands 30"x24"
I confess that I feel guilty for thoughtlessly copying Forum, I thought was an interesting message without looking at the original. It seemed to me that Aelita’s work would be more similar to real children’s creativity, both in size and style. But having looked at the pictures with a format two or three times larger than the child himself, I can only admit my excessive gullibility. A child cannot draw like that. The hand and style of an adult is evident, skillfully directing the actions of both the child himself and brilliantly managing the actions of the Internet community. Well, how can you not believe in a wonderful fairy tale, looking into the lovely eyes of such a sweet child?! It is precisely this trust of people in children that parents-puppeteers take advantage of.
It seems to me that everything is clear. The advertisement is engine of the trade. He who has eyes will see the truth. Anyone even slightly familiar with the modern art market knows very well the value of unfounded allegations that Epigonian paintings, supposedly by a four-year-old girl, can be more expensive than the works of talented Russian artists.
I can only advise business parents to take better photographs if they want people to at least a little believe in the beautiful legend about expensive sales. Which, of course, are not officially registered anywhere. After all, when information is spread “in the dark”, allegedly about the sale of children’s paintings for tens of thousands of dollars, is it really impossible to hire a professional photographer to create a high-quality portfolio?
You should also be more modest with the formats of the paintings; they are too big for such a small child. However, I understand, I understand... The market requires larger sizes.
My conclusion is that this is yet another scam in the art world. A scam put together with hard work, but not too thoughtfully or professionally. The authors of this project clearly failed to stay within the boundaries of plausibility. Ostap was carrying...
It is surprising that journalists from serious media outlets missed such unverified information while providing free advertising to adventurers from the fine arts. I cannot use another word - any person who has the slightest understanding of art will quickly see the unreliability of the legend about the young abstractionist. And I recommend that potential buyers get to know the author and his work better before parting with their money.
