THE TSUKANOV ART COLLECTION

 
 

Nazarenko Tatyana

 “I give much preliminary thought to each of my works, seriously developing not only the subject matter and accents of meaning, but also giving equal thought to the purely artistic aspects – composition, basic coloristic elements and the accompanying colors. It helps me very much to have a good knowledge of the history of painting, from the old masters, and the secrets of their technique, up to the opening of the present tempestuous century.”

Tatyana Nazarenko


Born in 1944

In her works, Tatyana Nazarenko unites classical art with avant-garde movements of the 20th century – Neoprimitivism, Expressionism and Surrealism. The artist has over time, in her painting, noticeably changed her basic creative orientation. While her works from the 1970s to the mid-1980s are obviously oriented toward humanistic values, those of the second half of the 1980s and particularly of the 1990s ever more clearly express the grotesque. The artist’s range of genre is extremely broad, including still life, landscapes, portraits and domestic scenes. She also creates installations and practices photography. But in whatever genre or form of art she practices, she always finds the expressive means to retain her very own artistic language.


The art of Tatyana Nazarenko has a powerfully analytical basis. In whatever genre of painting she works, the essential content of her pictures is expressed not only, and indeed not principally, through the subject, but more through the overall spiritual atmosphere, which determines both the psychological state of individuals and the emotional coloration of landscape and objects and is the very language of her art…. Nazarenko brings to her art something that elusively, but unmistakably, marks it as the work of present times. The viewer gets a feeling of time pulsating through her art.” Vladimir Voropanov.
 
The artist's work can be found in the following museums and collections:
   
“Moscow Evening”
The State Tretyakov Gallery
The State Russian Museum