reportage with miracle elements, genre painting, family portraits
Awards
Main Prize Laureate of the "Spring Saloon-98" – creative contest for women artists in Russia. Culture Ministry of the Russian Federation Medalist in 2000. Laureate of the Victor Popkov Contest (the second degree) in 2008.
Natta Ivanovna Konysheva (
Russian: Натта Ивановна Конышева; 9 June 1935 – 16 March 2022) was a Russian painter.
Biography
In 1959 Konysheva graduated from Moscow Polygraphists Institute. She has participated in the exhibitions since 1965.
From 1960 to 1970 she worked in industrial graphic design. She illustrated and designed books for the following publishing houses:
Sovetsky Pisatel, Geographizdat, Altaisky publishing house.
In 1974 Konysheva joined MSKh (Moscow Painters Organization).[1][2]
She started from participation in the apartment’s views and rare semi-permitted shows in the large scale exhibitions. She is promoting her method of art as "reportage with miracle elements".
Konysheva's personal exhibitions were held in
Moscow, Russia (1974, 1987, 1988, 2005, 2008) and in France (1988, 1994).
Artist about his credo
At the opening of the art exhibition "From
Repin up to the avant-garde" on 28 September 2009 in the Institute of Restoration: "Yes, I’m common as everybody, nothing special, I’m treading the ground. Workaholic. More carpenter than painter." (VESTI-MOSCOW 29.09.09 21:31).[4]
Albums
1988 "Catalogue. Natta Konysheva. Painting." Introduction article by
Meiland, Viliam Leonidovich. Moscow Association of Artists in RSFSR Publ. Изд. «Sovetsky hudozhnik», Moscow (Russia).
2006 "Time of changes. 1960-1985 Art in the
USSR."[5] Interactive program. Information Centre "Russian museum: virtual branch", Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
1995 /+ by -/ An exhibition together with Victor Krotov . Central House of Artists.
Moscow. Russia
2005 Natta Konysheva World and we are in it.[19] Central House of Artists.
Moscow. Russia
2008 Natta Konysheva and Oleg Sergeev. Painting.[20]Moscow. Moscow Commonwealth of Artists (‘MSKh’) Painters association. Exhibition Hall on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 20.
Moscow. Russia
External links
Life Journal Community: All about Natta (
Russian: Все о Натте)[21]