Still Life with a Hookah Painting

Alyona Lesnichenko, an artist. A member of the National Union of the artists of Ukraine. Born in 1980 in the Vinnitsa City. In 2003 she got a degree at South-Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky, supervisor O.V.Sleshinsky, the Art-Graphic Faculty. The creative way of Alyona Lesnichenko, which started on the art fields of Vinnitsa region since her student years, is unique in its genre and personal manner identity. Being apologetic of academic principles in art painting, she at the same time fills her works with her personal romantic approach to the world. Within classic genres of art – landscape, still life, portraits, animalistic paintings – Alyona Lesnichenko chooses a special depicting approach for each of them. It coincides in basic principles, i.e. the realistic depiction and longing for technical perfection in nature display, though it differs in creative approach. Still life in the artist’s performance borders on hyperrealism. Her compositions are filled with the things, transferred with almost documentary preciseness. The author fixes her attention on factures and surface, lead by illusive authenticity. The things seem to get naked before the viewers, losing the veil of routine. In the impressive line of ethnographic still life works one can be impressed by a detailed depiction of ornamental fabric and things, which becomes the keynote of the work and fills a complicated and multidetailed plot with a deep uniting sense.