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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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The Goddess
Painting by Anastasiia Maistrenko
90 x 130 cm • Acrilic and oil
Location:
Vyshhorod, Ukraine
Women have been called the “weaker sex” for a long time. But in my eyes, women are endowed with great power to create, give birth, love, care, protect, teach, raise, inspire, and fight. The list is long. I want to show this versatility of a woman’s nature in my work. I want to reflect on my experience and talk about the women who raised me, who I see now, and who I am. Not literally, but figuratively to turn it all into a fairy tale and a myth. The myth of great women, goddesses.
Location:
Vyshhorod, Ukraine
About the artist
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.
Tell what you think...
Were you transported somewhere by this artwork?
