Secrets of the Petals Print

Born in 1971. Graduated from the Graphic Arts Faculty of the Abai State University of Almaty. Winner of the Kostanai Oblast Akim Prize (2000). Filled with sun and summer shining paints, the chamber pictures of T. Barinova bewitch one with their unusual transparency and sincere feeling. The leading subject of her creative work are flowers, whose splendour is not dictated by the magnificence of luxuriant compositions but is intensified by the revealed beauty of even unpretentious field bouquets. The vessels are always emphatically plain and delicate, almost transparent. The artist accentuates the viewer's look on the essentials, revealing the charm and harmony of the world of flowers, which rejoice one with their short-lived beauty and perfection. Changing compositions, the artist amazes one with daintiness of her creative manner and peculiarity of the choice of objects for canvases. T. Barinova does not paint simply still-lives, they are rather «portraits» of natural form, diverse in colour and plasticity. In the choice of colours and their combination, the spectator sees the world of senses and moods of the artist herself. Bouquets may now be baroquely complicated as if demonstrating their splendour, now chastely airy, whose colour structure is based on gradation of semitones of one or two approximated colours. Permeated with natural feeling, they entangle the spectator in the process of guessing and recognition, as the artist is fond of looking for unhackneyed themes. Many compositions really enchant with melodies of unknown names. Not less interesting are well-known and liked cornflowers, ox-eye daisies, peonies, forget-me-nots as presented by T. Barinova; they give warmth and charm of the meadow motley grass, of an overgrown garden. The seemingly small genre, feminine at this, arouses imperishable interest of men in her flowers as well, they admire the artist's canvases without being perplexed. The boundary genre where Tatiana has found her theme is butterflies, whose grace and fascination remind of flower petals, as if raised by a burst of wind. Tatiana puts much into the titles of her pictures. This is a whole philosophy, a huge world in all the diversity of complicated feelings and notions, different from ours, but equipollent in the place taken in the earthly world order.