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Taisia
Kirillovna Afonina

Russia • 1913−1994

Biography and information

Painter. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Thesis in the CVC - "Girls of Donbass", the evaluation - excellent. The training took place at the faculty of painting, awarded the title of artist of painting.

Died 19 APR 1994 in Saint-Petersburg.

She was born may 13, 1913 in the city Nikolaev.

In 1946 he graduated from the Repin Institute of arts in Repin, workshop of Igor Grabar.

He studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Pavel Naumov, Viktor Oreshnikov.

Taisia Afonina has participated in art exhibitions since 1947.

He painted portraits, still lifes and urban landscapes, genre scenes, nature studies, worked in watercolors and oil painting.

The creative manner is characterized by the use of techniques of tonal painting, the interest in the careful design of light and air, and subtle coloristic relations.

He was a member of the Leningrad Union of artists since 1946.

Died in Saint Petersburg in 1994.

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