'Pavilion of Venus on the Island of Love', 1989 Oil on Canvas 39 1/3 by 39 1/3 in
born 1935
Natta Konisheva graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1959.
In 1974, Konisheva became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists,
seeing as she was becoming one of the best-known figures in the
unofficial art scene, being widely exhibited in Russia and abroad.
She was the winner of the Grand Prix of the Spring Saloon-98, a creative
competition for women artists in Russia. In 2000, Konisheva was decorated
with a medal from the Russian Ministry of Culture. Konisheva is a
representative of what is known as, the Moscow “strange” artists due
to the fact that her creative style is extremely unique. It combines the
beauty and the ugliness, describing the hectic and absurd life of the
Bohemians, pseudo-intelligentsia, and the romanticism of the lifestyle
of the homeless. All of these works are subject to stormy fireworks of
colors and the incompleteness of images and themes. Konisheva’s
paintings have attracted the attention of well-known European collectors,
such as Rene Gera (France). They are also exhibited in the collections of
the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State Russian Museum in
St. Petersburg, the Museum of Naive Arts in France, as well as in numerous
private collections in Russia, France, Italy, Germany, and the USA.
