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Maria
Ivanova Cosmist

MARIA IVANOVA
COSMIC ARTIST
- he is a laureate of Russian and international painting competitions, a member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia, a member of the Russian Space Society.
The artist was born in Moscow. Her works are in private Russian and foreign collections. Maria's works have been exhibited at the Cosmonautics Museum at VDNH, Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor, ARTPLAY Design Center, the International Center for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI, Moscow), the Apothecary Orchard of the Botanical Garden at Moscow State University, the Egyptian and Swiss galleries and other museums and galleries.
To date, Mary has created four series of her works: Unity of the Cosmos, The Great Himalayas, The Energy of Music, and The Temple of the Spirit. Each series is a piece of the whole - the artist's inner microcosm.
Her art was strongly influenced by the luminous paintings of the outstanding Russian artist N.K. Roerich, as well as a trip to India, to Sikkim, where she was first introduced to the Eastern Himalayas, the sacred Kanchenjunga, which became one of her favorite mountain peaks.
The basis of the artist's painterly pursuits are also the ideas of cosmicism: the unity of micro and macrocosm of man and the universe, the expansion of consciousness through beauty and knowledge, through understanding the role of man in the boundless cosmic space, when our intense creative thought can penetrate into the remotest corners of the universe.
"We are in space, we are inseparable from it. All cosmic processes are reflected on us. Everything that happens in us is reflected in the Cosmos. We are interconnected with the radiant depth of the Cosmos, its infinity and eternity. We are in the Cosmos, and the Cosmos is within us." - the artist ponders.
In Maria's paintings, sacred Himalayan peaks, planets, star systems and distant galaxies are linked together by a great universal harmony. In her works she seeks to convey through visual images the fragrance of otherness, the presence of another, more beautiful world of harmony and beauty.
Maria paints her canvases in oil and acrylic technique. Sometimes it takes from several days to several years to complete one work.
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