Elina Chelysheva
Born in 1975 in Tula, she is a descendant of the ancient Chelyshev family — owners of the well-known Chelyshev city complex in Moscow, the building of which laid the foundation for today’s Metropol Hotel.
She graduated with honors from the Art College in Kaliningrad in 1995; she studied with teachers of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography Anatoly Kuznetsov and Alexander Dudin.
Member of the Creative Union of Artists, International Federation of Artists since 1997.
Participant in exhibitions since 1998.
Works in collections
Her works are held in the Tobolsk Art Museum, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Exhibitions and auctions
1998 Autumn Exhibition. Malaya Gruzinskaya St. Moscow; 1999 Painting, Applied Arts. Gogolevsky Boulevard 10. Moscow; 1999 Autumn Exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of A.S. Pushkin's birth. Gogolevsky Boulevard 10. Moscow; 1999 Christmas Exhibition. Vyhino Exhibition Hall. Moscow; 2000 International Art Salon 'CDH-2000'. Central House of Artists. Moscow; 2000 Easter Week. Vyhino Exhibition Hall. Moscow; 2000 Spring Exhibition. Gogolevsky Boulevard 10. Moscow; 2000 Names in Art. Exhibition dedicated to City Day. Tushino. Moscow; 2000 Exhibition dedicated to City Day. Vyhino Exhibition Hall. Moscow; 2000 Christmas Exhibition. 'Na Kashirke' Exhibition Hall. Moscow; 2001 Easter Week. Vyhino Exhibition Hall. Moscow; 2001 Golden Brush. Novy Manezh. Moscow.
Author about himself
To expand the boundaries of real time, to understand, feel, and become aware of the time that has passed.
Critic
The artistic language and imagery of Elina Chelysheva's paintings can, so to speak, be measured by criteria of vital interpretation. She does not pursue 'novelty for the sake of novelty' in painting. But her works express the individual spiritual world of the artist. Each is dominated by a sense marked by youth, the charm of sincerity, and feminine grace. In a number of her works the essential, worldview-based attitude towards the depicted is already quite clearly visible. All this, it seems, will help the young artist in the future to avoid accidents in painting, the 'nakedness' of form, and to justify every detail, balancing her 'formulas of plasticity' with the overall artistic system of painting.
O. Baldina
Ph.D. in Art History
Bibliography
Catalog of the International Art Salon 'CDH-2000', Moscow, 2000; O. Baldina, 'I Long for the Lost Russia. Paintings by Elina Chelysheva', Nash Izograf, p.20, June 2000, Moscow.
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