The youngest professional artist in the world. Aelita Andre, a small child and a great artist
Aelita Andre, an artist from Australia, made the whole world talk about herself and became a real event in the art world. The fact is that Aelita is the youngest artist in the world and this fact does not prevent her from creating stunning canvases that are bought up by art connoisseurs like pies on a market day.
Aelita Andre was born on January 9, 2007 and at the age of 9 months she became addicted to drawing. Parents (Michael Andre (artist) - Australian, mother Nika Kalashnikov (photographer) - Russian) girls immediately turned their attention to the unusualness of her drawings. They were very different from the drawings made by her peers and even older children. They were very similar to those abstract paintings that hang in the most famous galleries and museums in the world. Children's abstract thinking works wonders. She does not just draw scribbles, but does it on a large scale and in each picture one can feel the underlying meaning.
Art critics recognized Aelita Andre the youngest professional artist in the world. In addition, she became one of the five smartest children on the planet. She has two solo exhibitions in the USA and Italy. The most expensive picture was sold for 30 thousand dollars, and the total cost of all sold paintings has already exceeded one million dollars. The style of the young artist was defined as abstract expressionism. To her works, which she paints with acrylic, the artist often adds three-dimensional objects - feathers, branches, toys, etc.
string city
Space Ocean
Fairy Island
Fire Dragon Dance
Peacock in space
Fall rain
Asteroid
South Cross
Leopard or Dragon Luck
dinosaur planet
On June 4, 2011, Agora Gallery, located in Chelsea, Manhattan, opened a solo exhibition of 4-year-old Australian artist Aelita Andre. Gallery director Angela Di Bello said she was surprised that the paintings that struck her were created by a little girl.
Perhaps Pablo Picasso was right when he once said: “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, and whole life to draw like a child, ”that’s why Aelita’s talent was revealed so early.
Picasso did not even suspect that almost 40 years after his death, the paintings of a mischievous little child would be compared with his priceless masterpieces.
Despite such a young age, the girl was recognized by art critics around the world, who with great surprise praise the work of a talented surrealist child.
Aelita Andre from Melbourne began to draw at 11 months, while the miracle child was not helped at all by either the artists or even her own parents - Australian father Michael Andre or Russian mother Nikka Kalashnikova, who assure that their four-year-old daughter is even angry , when they interfere with her creativity - does not even help her choose colors.
Thus, the girl became interested in painting even before she began to walk, and her first painting was bought when she was only 2 years old.
According to gallery director Angela Di Bello, Aelita's work is distinguished by excellent color, excellent composition, movement and liveliness.
Despite the fact that the young artist is only 4 years old, dozens of her works (more than 30) have already been acquired by private collectors. At the same time, the most expensive of Aelita's paintings was sold for 30 thousand dollars.
Aelita's parents, Australian artist Michael Andre and Russian photographer Nika Kalashnikova, claim that their daughter showed interest in painting when she was no more than 9 months old.
They reject allegations of child labor exploitation against them, arguing that the girl enjoys working on her
Paintings, independently choosing colors and time for painting. Like any of her peers, she is often distracted, but then she will certainly return to what she started and finish the picture.
Aelita André's personal website states that she is a member National Association artists of Australia (National Association for the Visual Arts), works in the technique of "automatism" and "accidentalism", "obsessed with painting", loves to sing, play the piano, the cartoon "My little Pony" and chocolate. The girl speaks mainly in Russian.
They are young, promising, insanely talented and simply delighted with their work. Their parents never dreamed that their children would become real celebrities at such a young age. Who are they, the youngest and interesting artists peace?
Kieron Williamson. England
This boy is called “little Monet”, his paintings are instantly sold out after exhibitions and become more and more expensive every year; he devoted half his life to drawing, and his parents lived in a rented apartment until they bought a house with the proceeds from Kiron's paintings.Kieron Williamson was born in England in the small town of Norfolk. His father is a builder, his mother is a general practitioner. The parents could not even imagine that their son would draw. Kieron, like all boys, loved football, leisure, games with friends. All he could draw was coloring sketches, and not very neatly. But, as always, everything was the fault of the case.
One day the family went to rest in the city of Cornwall. Kieron was simply delighted with the boats and sailboats moored to the shore. He drew this beauty. From that day on, his career as an artist began.
He did not stop writing after returning home. On the contrary, he took courses in watercolor painting, visited the studio. In the same year he opened his first exhibition. His paintings sold out in 14 minutes.
Owner art gallery in Norfolk says that Kieron has no equal in skill, because he draws equally well different colors amazing combination of colors. In his paintings, proportions and shadows are respected. Kiron's writing style is reminiscent of an impressionist one.
Kiron is predicted a great future, because his paintings are collected by collectors in many countries of the world, believing that in the near future they will cost much more.
Dusan Krtolitsa. Serbia
At the age of two, he took a pencil in his hands, and by the age of eight he already had two exhibitions, he is called the “eye-pull-out boy” because of the amazing accuracy of all the details of his work.
Dušan Krtolica has become the real pride of Serbia, although he considers himself an ordinary boy. Dusan's first work was an accurately drawn whale, although his parents did not attach any importance to the boy's drawing. But every day the child asked for more and more paper for work.
Today, Dushan draws about 500 works in a week. portray an animal and vegetable world- his passion. But it is not only surprising that the boy makes incomparable drawings with a simple pen or marker, all his animals are depicted with amazing anatomical accuracy. But Dushan depicts not only modern animals, but also representatives of the fauna that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
Parents were concerned about such a passion for their son and showed him to a psychiatrist. But the expert noted high level the boy's intellect, and reassured him: the "genius" of the child does not affect his development in any way, and drawing acts as a kind of emotional release. Dushan gets along well with classmates, loves all boyish games, and, surprisingly, dreams of becoming not an artist, but a zoologist.
Aelita Andre. Australia
This girl is eight years old today. At the age of four, she already had her own exhibitions, now she is a member of the National Association of Artists of Australia, and sales from her paintings amount to 800 thousand dollars.
Aelita Andre started painting when she was less than a year old. As always, everything happened by accident. The girl's father is also an artist. One day he left a canvas with paints on the floor, and found that his little daughter was painting with pleasure. Of course, he was only glad - for a child, anything, just not to cry.
But from that day Aelita's love for drawing began. At the age of two, she already had her own exhibition.
In the works of the girls, they observe a surrealistic style of painting, and the manner of drawing is compared with the technique of Salvador Dali.
Of course, many see in the works of the girl only "childish daub". But critics are just saying that her paintings do not look like children's drawings. They admire the combination of colors, their own style, features of texture and composition.
Xing Yao Tsen. Taiwan, USA
He started drawing at the age of 10. FROM home country moved to the USA to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco. His landscapes are simply mesmerizing, and teachers predict a great future for him.
Xing Yao just fell in love with San Francisco. He draws the same places many times, only from different angles. He especially likes to draw in the early morning or evening - when there are few passers-by.
His cityscapes are simply amazing.
Xing Yao has an amazing "floating" oil painting technique. One gets the impression that he paints with watercolors.
Now he is 29 years old, and with each work his technique becomes more and more perfect. Who knows what skill Xing Yao will achieve in, say, ten years from now?
Shorio Mahano. India
Emu is not yet ten years old, and his work is presented at an exhibition in his native India and in New York. The paintings of Shorio Mahano fascinated the critics.
Shorio Mahano works in the style of abstract expressionism. His passion for drawing began at the age of four, when he imitated the passion of his older sisters. But the parents immediately realized that these were not just children's drawings, but something more.
This was confirmed on art exhibition where the work was taken.
Shorio uses a special technique of applying paint in several layers. It takes him several days to complete one job.
Shorio is delighted with his occupation and answers without hesitation when asked what he wants to be - of course, an artist!
Alicia Zakharko. Ukraine
This girl is not yet three years old, and she is already registered in the Book of Records of Ukraine as the most young artist which has its own exhibition.Alicia Zakharko was born and lives in Ternopil. She started drawing when she couldn't even walk. Her parents are professional artists. They gave the girl a canvas and paints when she was 9 months old. Remembering how the girl painted for the first time, the mother smiles, because the daughter fit entirely on the canvas.
Parents suggested that the child draw only for general development. They had no idea that their daughter's passion would soon make them local celebrities.
One day, a local professional artist saw Alicia's painting. He considered it interesting and worthy of attention. When he heard that it was painted by a two-year-old girl, he thought that they were joking with him, because the picture was made compositionally correctly, and the colors combined just fantastically.
What is so interesting about Alicia's paintings? The style of her work has been described as abstract expressionism, and the execution technique has been compared to the work of Jackson Polock.
She combines bright colors, and this combination is not typical for children's drawing.
Alicia says that she loves to draw the sea, trees, people. Only the sea in her paintings explodes different colors. So what, then, the artist saw him that way.
Parents give complete freedom for creativity girls. They do not teach her to draw, so as not to “frighten off” her talent. Alicia's mom says it's up to her daughter to decide if she gets art education. For parents, the most important thing is that their child is happy. And, judging by the mood of the work, she is very happy.
All these children began to draw on own will, their parents did not help them and did not develop the skill by force. Who knows, maybe your child has a dormant talent, you just need to catch a moment to reveal it.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia: Aelita Andre, Australian abstract painter, known for her surreal style of painting, is a member of the National Association visual arts Australia (National Association for the Visual Arts). It's all right, that's just we are talking about a 4 year old girl
Yesterday I came across a material about this baby, as a result I got stuck on the Internet for an extra hour, at least the topic seemed so unusual and ambiguous to me.
Aelita is the daughter of Australian artist Michael Andre and Russian photographer Nika Kalashnikova. The little girl started drawing at the age of 9 months, and her parents (well done!) created ideal conditions for her to continue her interesting painting.
There is a video where she draws: a muzzle completely smeared with paints, hair, clothes, herself concentrated and serious, in a separate studio room, completely “decorated” with colored blots. On the floor is a large canvas (with a painted background) and a sea of jars, tubes, brushes, everything professional quality and in a wide range. The child really creates, not being afraid to get dirty and spoil something. A spectacle that can be watched for a long time)))
Some of the works have names - this is "Dinosaur Island"
This is the surreal "Eagle" performed by Aelita
Most of all, the comments are unpleasantly surprising - some say "the usual children's daub", some recognize talent, but doubt the authenticity of authorship and that the artist's dad does not take part in their creation. Some write that my child would have such a studio, and I would have so much free time and money to study with him ...
There is an interesting statement that is very out of place here: "The difference between an abstract artist and you is that you only 'could', and he painted."
In June of this year, Aelita's solo exhibition took place in New York under the title "Miracle of Color". Her paintings are successfully sold - the amount of 32 paintings sold amounted to more than 800 thousand dollars. Some spit, not wanting to recognize children's blots as art, some buy and hang paintings on the wall, admiring and calling it surrealism, close to Dali's work.
The baby made a fuss))) I hope she has a wonderful future, and the most inveterate skeptics will be convinced of her talent. And talent, even without the makings of genius, can be developed in exactly the ways that Aelita's parents act.
Nine years ago, a girl with a unique talent was born. Her name is Aelita Andre. The youngest artist in the world has already sold paintings worth more than one million dollars.
short biography
A talented girl from Australia. Her family lives in the city of Melbourne. The birthday of the little artist in winter is January 9th. AT next year she is 10 years old.
Aelita Andre's parents are also involved in art. Her father is the famous Australian artist Michael Andre, and her mother, Nika Kalashnikova, is working on creating artistic photos. The mother of a gifted girl is from Russia.
Hobbies and passions
If you do not take into account special talent, then Aelita Andre is quite an ordinary girl. She learned two languages English and Russian (she prefers to speak the latter). The young artist loves chocolate most of all.
Also, nine-year-old Aelita enjoys playing the piano and attends gymnastics training. She enjoys making crafts, which she often brings to Kindergarten. The artist enjoys watching TV. Like all children her age, she loves animal shows and cartoons. She is especially interested in videos about dinosaurs. The girl is fond of astronomy, often watching the program "Cosmos".
Talent Discovery
Drawing is a hobby of the whole Andre family. Little Aelita from the very beginning early childhood watched over creative process parents. She saw how adults paint on large canvases right on the floor. Once Michael Andre, while working on another painting, left a piece of paper unattended for a while. When he returned to the canvas, he saw that the nine-month-old baby crawled to the paints on her own and smeared them simply with her hands. Aelita Andre did it with such enthusiasm and passion that the surprised father allowed his daughter to continue painting.
Since then, the girl has been constantly creating with her parents, who gave her separate sheets of paper for this.
The rapid development of the artist's career
In 2009, when the baby was not yet 2 years old, my mother took Aelita Andre's drawings and showed them to her friend Mark Jemison, director of the Brunsik Gallery. Nika Kalashnikova did not tell the art critic who the author of the works was in order to avoid bias. Mark Jamison rated several paintings and exhibited them at a group show in Melbourne. When the public found out how old the artist was, everyone was shocked. Some made accusations against the parents, allegedly they use their daughter for profit. But Nika and Michael never forced the baby to draw, this is entirely her initiative.
Just a few months later, the artist Aelita Andre became famous in China. Her canvases were exhibited at the Australian Girl's Masterpieces group, which made a splash in the art world. One of her paintings was sold for $24,000.
Personal exhibitions
Five years ago, the whole world learned about young talent named Aelita Andre. The artist's work has been exhibited at the Agora Gallery in the United States. Personal vernissage took place in the summer of 2011 in New York, it lasted for 22 days. The exhibition was organized at the expense of the author's personal funds.
The exposition included more than twenty paintings, nine of which were sold immediately for more than 30 thousand dollars. The cost of the paintings ranged from $10,000. After such success, the girl began to be called "baby Picasso", "phenomenon", "wunderkind". The exhibition had title The Prodigy of Color (Miracle of color).
Three months later, Aelita's paintings went to Italy. In the city of Tuscany in September 2011, the second individual exhibition of the young artist was opened. Most of the paintings sold have joined the exposition range of private collectors.
Recognition by world art critics
Michael Andre and Nika Kalashnikov support their daughter in every possible way. Parents provided the young artist with everything necessary. They equipped a modern workshop for her, bought a wide variety of paints and sparkles.
Artist Aelita Andre works in the style of expressive abstract art. Her paintings have received worldwide recognition. Notable critics and experts in the field of art appreciated the girl's canvases as highly artistic. In their opinion, in the masterpieces of Aelita special role play movement and color, composition and liveliness.
A young talented artist in her own way tunes in to work. She comes up with a story, which she then embodies on canvas. In her paintings, the girl uses not only acrylic paints, but also other materials, such as tree bark or branches, dinosaur figurines or balls.
A small Australian artist herself determines the place and time for creativity. Sometimes she has a desire to paint even at night. In the process of creative height Aelita Andre (whose paintings are recognized as highly artistic) can be distracted from work for several hours. But after some time, the girl always returns to the canvas to finish her next masterpiece.
Some art historians have repeatedly expressed doubts about the full authorship of the artist's paintings, they are too good. In their opinion, one of the baby's parents could "make a hand" in the masterpieces. But Nika and Michael claim that their daughter is simply obsessed with painting and they do not interfere in her creation process.
Pictures of the youngest artist in St. Petersburg
This year, on September 2, Aelita Andre's personal exhibition "Music of Infinity" opened in Russia. The works of the Australian artist-phenomenon are located in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in the cultural capital of the Russian Federation - in St. Petersburg. The exposition presents more than fifty paintings by Aelita, collected over all her years of creativity. Also, museum visitors saw photographic works, sculptures, personal items and pencil sketches of the artist.
The exhibition also features sound paintings by Aelita André. A nine-year-old girl independently and unconsciously created a new movement in the art world "magical expressionism". She combined painting and sound.
According to the plan of the organizers, "Music of Infinity" was supposed to last a month. But the Russian audience liked the works of the youngest artist on the planet so much that the exhibition was extended for another ten days.
Pictures painted by young Aelita
An Australian girl has painted many canvases in her eight years of creativity. She presented such paintings as Dinosaur Island, Space Ocean, String City, Fairy Island, Peacock in Space, Kangaroo, Southern Cross.
According to Aelita Andre herself, she will paint for the rest of her life. She needs painting like air and water. The girl-phenomenon plans to present more than one masterpiece to the world. We wish her good luck and inspiration!
