Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia: Aelita Andre, Australian abstract artist, known for her surreal painting style, is a member of National Association visual arts Australia (National Association for the Visual Arts). Everything is fine, but we are talking about a 4-year-old girl)))
Yesterday I came across an article about this little girl, and ended up stuck on the Internet at extra hour, at least, the topic seemed so unusual and controversial to me.
Aelita is the daughter of Australian artist Michael Andre and Russian photographer Nika Kalashnikova. The baby started drawing at 9 months, and her parents (well done!) created for her ideal conditions to continue practicing his interesting painting.
There is a video where she draws: her face, her hair, her clothes are absolutely smeared with paints, she herself is concentrated and serious, in a separate studio room, completely “decorated” with colored blots. On the floor there is a large canvas (with a painted background) and a sea of jars, tubes, brushes, everything professional quality and in a large assortment. The child truly creates, without fear of getting dirty and ruining something. A spectacle that can be watched for a long time)))
Some works have names - this is "Dinosaur Island"
This is the surreal "Eagle" performed by Aelita
What is most unpleasantly surprising are the comments - some say “an ordinary children’s daub”, some recognize the talent, but doubt the authenticity of the authorship and the fact that the artist father does not take part in their creation. Some people write that my child would like such a studio, and I would like so much free time and money to study with him...
There is an interesting statement that is most appropriate here: “The difference between an abstract artist and you is that you only “could”, but he painted.”
In June of this year, Aelita’s personal exhibition took place in New York, entitled “The Miracle of Color.” Her paintings are selling successfully - the amount of 32 paintings sold amounted to more than 800 thousand dollars. Some people 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 the work of Dali.
The little girl made a splash))) I hope she has a wonderful future ahead of her, 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 same ways as Aelita’s parents.
Nine years ago, a girl with a unique talent was born. Her name is Aelita Andre. The most young artist in the world has already sold paintings worth over one million dollars.
Brief biography
A talented girl from Australia. Her family lives in the city of Melbourne. The little artist’s birthday in winter is January 9th. She turns 10 next year.
Aelita Andre's parents are also involved in art. Her dad is the famous Australian artist Michael Andre, and her mother, Nika Kalashnikova, works on creating artistic photographs. 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 ordinary girl. She learned two languages: English and Russian (she prefers to speak the latter). The young artist loves chocolate most of all.
Nine-year-old Aelita also 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 programs about animals and cartoons. She is especially interested in videos about dinosaurs. The girl is interested in astronomy and often watches the program “Cosmos”.
Discovery of talent
Drawing is a hobby for the whole Andre family. Little Aelita from the very early childhood watched creative process parents. She saw adults painting on large canvases directly on the floor. One day, Michael Andre, while working on another painting, left a piece of paper unattended for some time. When he returned to the canvas, he saw that the nine-month-old baby had crawled to the paints on her own and was simply smearing them with her hands. Aelita Andre did this with such delight and passion that the surprised father allowed his daughter to continue drawing.
Since then, the girl constantly created 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, her mother took Aelita Andre’s drawings and showed them to her friend Mark Jamison, director of the Brunsic gallery. Nika Kalashnikova did not tell the art critic who the author of the works was in order to avoid bias. Mark Jamison appreciated several paintings and exhibited them in a group exhibition in Melbourne. When the public found out how old the artist was, everyone was shocked. Some made accusations against the parents, allegedly using their daughter for profit. But Nika and Michael never forced the little girl to draw; it was entirely her initiative.
Just a few months later, the artist Aelita Andre became famous in China. Her paintings were exhibited at the group Masterpieces of the Australian girl created a sensation in the art world. One of her paintings was sold for 24 thousand dollars.
Solo exhibitions
Five years ago, the whole world learned about a young talent named Aelita Andre. The artist's works were exhibited at the Agora Gallery in the USA. The 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 exhibition included more than twenty paintings, nine of which were immediately sold for more than 30 thousand dollars. The cost of the paintings varied within $10,000. After such success, the girl began to be called “baby Picasso”, “phenomenon”, “prodigy”. The exhibition was called The Prodigy of Color.
Three months later, Aelita’s paintings went to Italy. In September 2011, the second individual exhibition of the young artist was opened in the city of Tuscany. Most of the paintings sold were added to the exhibits of private collectors.
Recognition by world art critics
Michael Andre and Nika Kalashnikova support their daughter in every possible way. Her parents provided the young artist with everything she needed. They equipped her with a modern workshop and bought a wide variety of paints and glitter.
Artist Aelita Andre works in the style of expressive abstract art. Her paintings have received worldwide recognition. Notable critics and art experts praised the girl’s paintings as highly artistic. In their opinion, in Aelita's masterpieces special role movement and color, composition and liveliness play.
The young talented artist approaches her work in her own way. She comes up with a story, which she then puts on canvas. In her paintings the girl uses not only acrylic paints, but also other materials, for example, tree bark or branches, dinosaur figures or balls.
The little Australian artist herself determines the place and time for her creativity. Sometimes she has a desire to paint even at night. In the process of creative peak, 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 critics 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 have had a hand in the masterpieces. But Nika and Michael claim that their daughter is simply obsessed with painting and they do not interfere with her creation process.
Paintings by 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 phenomenon artist were placed in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in the cultural capital of the Russian Federation - St. Petersburg. The exhibition features more than fifty paintings by Aelita, collected over all her years of creativity. Museum visitors also saw photographic works, sculptures, personal belongings and pencil sketches female artists.
The exhibition also features sound paintings by Aelita Andre. 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 organizers' plan, "Music of Infinity" was supposed to last a month. But Russian viewers liked the works of the youngest artist on the planet so much that the exhibition was extended for another ten days.
Paintings painted by young Aelita
Over the course of eight years of creativity, the Australian girl has painted many canvases. She presented such films as “Dinosaur Island”, “Cosmic Ocean”, “String City”, “Fairy Island”, “Peacock in Space”, “Kangaroo”, “Southern Cross”.
According to Aelita Andre herself, she will draw for the rest of her life. She needs painting like air and water. The phenomenon girl plans to present more than one masterpiece to the world. We wish her good luck and inspiration!
They are young, promising, incredibly 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 Kieron'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, active recreation, and games with friends. All he could draw was color sketches, and not very carefully. But, as always, it was all due to chance.
One day the family went on vacation to the city of Cornwall. Kieron was absolutely delighted with the boats and sailboats moored on the shore. He painted this beauty. From this day his career as an artist began.
He did not stop writing after returning home. On the contrary, I took watercolor painting courses and 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 paints equally well with different colors and combines colors amazingly. His paintings respect proportions and shadows. Kieron's style of writing is reminiscent of impressionism.
They predict a great future for Kiron, because his paintings are collected by collectors in many countries around the world, believing that in the near future they will cost much more.
Dusan Krtolica. Serbia
At the age of two he picked up a pencil, and by the age of eight he had already had two exhibitions; he is called the “eye-tear boy” because of the amazing accuracy of all the details of his work.
Dusan 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 everything more paper for work.
Today, Dusan paints approximately 500 works per week. Depict an animal and flora- his passion. But it’s 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 Dusan depicts not only modern animals, but also representatives of the fauna that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
The parents were concerned about their son's passion and took him to a psychiatrist. But the specialist noted high level the boy’s intelligence, and reassured him: the child’s “genius” does not affect his development in any way, and drawing acts as a kind of emotional release. Dusan gets along well with his 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 began drawing when she was not even one year old. As always, everything turned out by chance. The girl's father is also an artist. One day he left a canvas with paints on the floor and discovered that his little daughter was happily painting. Of course, he was only happy - anything for a child, as long as he didn’t cry.
But from that day Aelita’s love for drawing began. At two years old she already had her own exhibition.
The girls are watching in the works surreal style painting, and the style of drawing is compared with the technique of Salvador Dali.
Of course, many see in the girl’s works only “childish scribbling.” But critics just say that her paintings do not look like children's drawings. They admire the combination of colors, own style, features of texture and composition.
Xing Yao Cen. Taiwan, USA
He started drawing at the age of 10. WITH home country moved to the USA to study at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Its landscapes are simply mesmerizing, and teachers predict a great future for it.
Xing Yao simply fell in love with San Francisco. He draws the same places many times, only with different angles. He especially likes to paint in the early morning or evening - when there are few passers-by.
Its cityscapes are simply amazing.
Xing Yao has an amazing “floating” oil painting technique. One gets the impression that he is painting with watercolors.
Now he is 29 years old, and with each work his technique becomes more and more perfect. Who knows what kind of skill Xing Yao will achieve in, say, ten years?
Shorio Mahano. India
Emu is not yet ten years old, and his works are presented at an exhibition in his native India and in New York. Shorio Mahano's paintings captivated critics.
Shorio Mahano works in the style of abstract expressionism. His passion for drawing began at the age of four, when he imitated the hobby of his older sisters. But the parents immediately realized that these were not just children’s drawings, but something more.
This was confirmed by 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 - an artist, of course!
Alicia Zaharko. Ukraine
This girl is not yet three years old, but she is already registered in the Book of Records of Ukraine as the youngest artist who has her 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 canvas and paints when she was 9 months old. Remembering how the girl painted for the first time, the mother smiles, because her daughter fit entirely on the canvas.
The parents suggested that the child draw only for general development. They had no idea that their daughter’s passion would very soon make them local celebrities.
One day, Alicia's painting was seen by a local professional artist. He found 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 on him, because the painting was done compositionally correctly, and the colors were combined simply fantastically.
What's so interesting about Alicia's paintings? The style of her work has been described as abstract expressionism, and her technique has been compared to the work of Jackson Pollock.
She combines bright colors, and this combination is not typical for children's drawing.
Alicia says that she really likes to draw the sea, trees, and people. Only the sea in her paintings explodes different colors. So what does that mean, the artist saw him that way?
Parents give complete freedom for the girl’s creativity. They don’t teach her to draw, so as not to “scare off” her talent. Alicia's mom says her daughter will decide for herself whether she will receive art education. For parents, the main thing is that their child is happy. And judging by the mood of the work, she is very happy.
All these children started drawing at will, their parents did not help them and did not force them to develop their skills. Who knows, maybe your child has a dormant talent, you just need to seize the moment to reveal it.