Maria Novoseltseva

Personalism in Art

I was here. I lived this moment. And this is what remains of me.

I build my art upon the human being. Personalism is a new art movement that I am creating and following. Its core value is the human being: as a creator, as a carrier of their own time, as the source of the work, and as a part of the reality that made this work possible. Art begins not with a painting, but with a person.

I propose a flipped perspective on art, listening to the voices of four: time, the artist, the viewer, and the painting. Their union gives birth to the true essence of art—the ability to see oneself in another, just as the artist once saw themselves in us.

At the heart of every work lies an honest story. Future generations have the right to interpret us in their own way, because art is the ultimate container of human presence, and Personalism strives not to lose it. I do not place the artist above the work, nor the work above the artist; they stand side by side, incomplete without one another.

Personalism is not a cult of personality, but a refusal to let it vanish. The artist is the living optics of their time, absorbing its joys, pains, and contradictions. A painting is a trace of human presence, a fragment of someone else's ...

Higher education in Graphic Arts and Book Illustration.

Professional Apprenticeship:
Studied under the mentorship of two leading painters from the major State Art Academies in Moscow. This period focused on mastering classical techniques and developing a profound understanding of painterly form and structure.