The Deer and the Wounded City (2024) by Anastasiia Maistrenko - subjektiv.art
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Anastasiia Maistrenko
Artist from Ukraine
Anastasia Maistrenko (Nasyla) was born in 1991 in Kyiv.
In 2014, she graduated from the Kyiv National Institute of Design and Decorative
and Applied Arts named after M. Boychuk with a degree in monumental and
decorative painting.
She studied mosaics, frescoes, stained glass, and ceramics. All this knowledge
influenced her stylistic monumental approach to creating works.
She painted churches, created mosaics, taught painting and drawing for children
and adults.
Now she works mainly in easel painting and ceramics.
In her artistic practice, she looks for complex symbolic and mythical images to
express several ideas and thoughts in one image. He often uses quite sensual,
expressive techniques to make his works “catch” the viewer. He tries to express his
inner feelings through his art, on various relevant and quite personal topics. The
attitude to such concepts as loneliness, loss, changes that you cannot influence
strength of spirit, the afterlife, and the beauty and ugliness of this world, which
often go hand in hand.
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I created these works after the start of the full-scale invasion. These pictures are my reflections on the events, an attempt to experience and comprehend everything happening to me and other people in my country, and to put it all into artistic images that can represent our backgrounds.
Anastasia Maistrenko (Nasyla) was born in 1991 in Kyiv.
In 2014, she graduated from the Kyiv National Institute of Design and Decorative
and Applied Arts named after M. Boychuk with a degree in monumental and
decorative painting.
She studied mosaics, frescoes, stained glass, and ceramics. All this knowledge
influenced her stylistic monumental approach to creating works.
She painted churches, created mosaics, taught painting and drawing for children
and adults.
Now she works mainly in easel painting and ceramics.
In her artistic practice, she looks for complex symbolic and mythical images to
express several ideas and thoughts in one image. He often uses quite sensual,
expressive techniques to make his works “catch” the viewer. He tries to express his
inner feelings through his art, on various relevant and quite personal topics. The
attitude to such concepts as loneliness, loss, changes that you cannot influence
strength of spirit, the afterlife, and the beauty and ugliness of this world, which
often go hand in hand.
