E-dur Treasures From The Deep Painting

Ekaterina Korchagina was born in 1981 in Moscow in the family of a journalist and a painter. From an early age she studied music in musical сhoir school Vesna (Spring) in Moscow. Ekaterina has always been interested in painting but only by the age of 30 when she already was an experienced accompanist and a teacher of academic singing she became an active painter. Ekaterina studied painting and graphics at the Academic School of Design in Moscow. At the moment she studies contemporary art in “free workshops” of MOMMA in Moscow. Ekaterina’s love towards music can be seen at once in her art. Most her works were inspired by music: “It is through the profession of a musician that I finally took to painting. In my works I visualize music as the most sincere and honest means of art. I am trying to express on canvas the emotions and energy that inspire me. The painter’s favorite subject are her own memories and the world of utopic fantasies governed by her inner child. Ekaterina gradually creates her own mythology woven of dreams and memories. Her paintings lack definite subject and that is why every spectator can visualize their own dream. Materials and techniques are in line with that idea: acryl jets are fused with pastels and thus the image is getting vague, much more like a memory or a dream. Ekaterina’s art credo is to inspire, to give the feeling of excitement and serenity. Ekaterina’s art was influenced by the art of Wassily Kandinsky, Hundertwasser, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Jackson Pollock, Shiota Chiharu and Banksy.