Olga
Sazykina

Russia • Sankt-Peterburg and Leningrad Oblast • born in 1990 • artist
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Olga began her career in 2011, when she submitted work to the citywide exhibition of artists. There fate brought her with her future mentor Viktor Viktorovich Nevzorov. Under his leadership and in his creative workshop, she continued to hone her skills from 2011 to 2013. The personality and work of the artist, as Olga admits, had a great influence on her. After graduating from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 2013, she studied at the Russian Academy of Education at the faculty of painting. In the development and formation of Olga as a professional artist, such figures of art and culture as the candidate of philosophical sciences, dean of the art department of the University of RAO Larisa Aleksandrovna Nemenskaya and professor, people's artist of the RSFSR, member of the Russian Academy of Arts Boris Mikhailovich Nemensky played a role.

During her studies in Moscow, Olga does not cease to actively engage in painting, look for new directions in it, techniques, and hone old skills. At the same time, an active and creative girl works simultaneously in a comprehensive school and conducts painting and academic drawing lessons at an art school. Then she creates a series of graphic paintings, sketch-observations with the nature of Moscow and the Moscow region, depicting Moscow parks and forests. Part of the work of the "Moscow cycle" presented at the exhibition. In 2016, Olga took part in the Give Life life charity fund of a Russian actress, public figure Chulpan Khamatova. More than 20 graphic works have been bought, and money has been provided to the fund to help children.

Today in the creative field of vision of the artist is a city landscape. It depicts both old views of the city 20-30 years ago, and modern Michurinsk.

The artist likes to study people, convey their mood, facial expressions, and characteristic features. Olga admitted that she looked closely at each guest and even urged those present not to be shy to offer themselves as a sitter to write another portrait.

Mobile phones, tablets in the artist’s paintings are not random or invented. All portraits of Olga are made from nature. She says that there was even a case when she asked her friend to urgently change the "attribute of the 21st century" to a book.

Olga likes concept art. In terms of cinema, Olga was delighted with the latest domestic paintings about the victories of the Russian people: “Legend 17”, “Time of the First”, “Movement Up”. “Such a movie is excellent, first of all, because it causes a patriotic upsurge among the younger generation,” the talented girl admits. In terms of literature, Olga prefers domestic classics of the XIX-XX centuries. According to the girl, these books help to make a person’s speech more beautiful and richer. Olga is cool in the modern period. “However,“ Game of Thrones ”(both the book and the film adaptation) are required to study,” the artist admits with a smile.

Portraits of Olga were created mainly with oil on canvas. The informal people depicted on them are representatives of various subcultures and creative spheres. The images are transferred in a mysterious manner and bright style. The liner and marker on paper are brightly painted by the artist of the sights of Michurinsk - schools, parks, churches. Ink-pen in a polished manner created the cycle “Through Michurinsky back streets”. Oil on canvas made colorful and light still lifes.

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