Charke Maas is a Dutch artist. Her works first saw the light in the early 90s, with exhibitions in Italy, at the [1] [2] USA [3] [4] and later in 2009, in Russia, at the State Museum named after . M. A. Bulgakov in Moscow [5] at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House , in St. Petersburg [6] , and immediately attracted the attention of the public and critics.
| Charke Maas | |
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| Birth name | niderl. Tjaarke Hendrika Maria Maas |
| Date of Birth | October 26, 1974 |
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| Date of death | June 26, 2004 (aged 29) |
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| Genre | painting |
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“The paintings of Charque Maas are distinguished by their high artistic skill ... continuing the tradition of the great Flemings , they are executed in a new form and modern language.” Writes Professor, President of the Florentine Academy of Art, [7] Francesco Adorno.
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Life and Art
Charke showed artistic talent from an early age, back in Tasmania , Australia , where her family immigrated from the Netherlands . At the age of 17, she returned to Europe and enrolled, first at the courses of the Royal Art Academy “Willem de Coning”, then continuing her education in New York, where she took her first steps in icon painting , studying under the master of the icon painter, Vladislav Andreev [8] . Iconography, Russian literature and religious philosophy , had a profound effect on Charke and her works [9] . She adopted Orthodoxy , gaining a new name - Mary.
At 19, Charke married, and to help her new family, she worked as a model for about four years, traveling throughout Europe. She also visited Japan , whose art influenced many of her works.
In 1996, Charke was admitted to the Florentine Academy of Arts , where her bright talent was truly revealed. In 2003, she graduated from the Academy with a Cum Laude Diploma. [10] .
Continuing intensive work [11] , she combined painting with writing poetry, prose, and fairy tales for children and adults. Charke left more than 500 works, including painting, lithographs , drawings.
Recent years
At the age of 26, Charke was hospitalized. In a short time spent in the hospital, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder was established. The disease overtook her suddenly, at the time of the start of work on a diploma, and she had to cope with it until the end of her life, which tragically ended, after four years. Finishing the icon of the Transfiguration , commissioned by Catholic priest Don Gino, Charca retired to Eremo delle Carcheri , near the monastery of St. Francis of Assisi . She was found on the slopes of Mount Subazio, July 8, 2004. The cause of death was found to be a fall.
the artists don’t die - they just move from one workshop to another - writes about Charke, the artist Lev Mezhberg - ... her gift was from God, she did not pursue fame, her reverent works breathed life, her touch on canvas, a piece of wood, was real spiritual act. She was a real, born painter, the finest draftsman, she strove for harmony, no outrage, no vulgarity. Her work lived, trembled. She had a real breed in painting, these batches, without annoying strokes, were nature itself, truth, truth, but not natural nature itself, but parallel, real, no naturalism, it was a deep combination of divine gift with intellect, which is the essence of art
- Charke Maas. The Pilgrim 1996-2004. - SPB: CPI SPbGUTD, 2009. - S. 69-70
Literature
- ChARKE MAAS - Workshop 1996-2004, CPI SPbGUTD, Saint-Petersburg 2009; ISBN 978-88-904914-1-2
- ChARKE MAAS - Pilgrim 1996-2004, CPI SPbGUTD, Saint-Petersburg 2009; ISBN 978-88-904914-0-5
- TJAARKE MAAS - Opere / Works 1999-2004, Edizioni Polistampa 2005; ISBN 88-8304-910-1
Notes
- ↑ 1999 - “Piccioni”, Pane e Vino, Florence, Italy
- ↑ 2005 - Tjaarke Maas, Opere 1999-2004, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence, Italy
- ↑ 2004 - Grand Gallery, Soho, New York USA
- ↑ 2004 - Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ, USA
- ↑ Charke Maas, 1996 - 2004 “Workshop” M. Bulgakov Museum May 15 - June 1, 2009
- ↑ Charke Maas “Pilgrim” 1996-2004 Painting, Graphics, Objects. May 5 - 24 2009, Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House
- ↑ Prof. Francesco Adorno President of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Tjaarke Maas Opere-Works 1999-2004, Edizioni Polistampa 2005, p7
- ↑ Icon Galery
- ↑
* <...> It is incomprehensible how Dutch by origin, who lived in the USA, France and Italy, Charke Maas managed to feel so, to get used to the world of images of a Russian writer. One of the clues is her immersion in Orthodoxy, acquaintance and passing through her own hands the Byzantine and Russian icon-painting culture, her acquaintance with the works of Russian philosophers and theologians of the beginning of the 20th century (Sergiy Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov), works Fedor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov ... This knowledge, this personal spiritual experience became a fertile ground for the artist to understand and his own creative erpretatsii theological level of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Another key is Charke's passion for mythology, the history of cultures and civilizations, and symbolism. <...>
- Alexandra Selivanova (artist, curator of the project at the Bulgakov Museum). CHARKE MAAS. Workshop 1996-2004. - SPb: CPI SPbGUTD, 2009. - S. 5-6 - ↑ The theme of her thesis, written in Italian, was “Un'introduzione alle tecniche ed ai significantati dell'ICONOGRAFIA RUSSO-BIZANTINA” “Introduction to the methods and significance of Russian-Byzantine iconography”
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stunning preparations preceded the paintings. Of 300-400 sketches on brown paper, only 90 are selected for work, or rather, a ritual
build invoices .... the artist is far from a post-modern parody, quotes. She is busy reviving an ancient custom: she makes paints herself, because writing with purchased ones is like playing non-tuned instruments. As a result, an almost forgotten miracle of color. She experiments with picturesque text, rolls it and kneads. Sacred, with disarming independence, continues the tradition of those artists of the mid-20th century who were obsessed with tactile, poetry of the most ordinary things, controlled the element of their breathing, sensual textures.
- Nelly Rakovskaya (art critic, critic). Charke Maas. The Pilgrim 1996-2004. - SPB: CPI SPbGUTD, 2009. - P. 10
Links
- TJAARKE MAAS ARTS
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence, Italy, Tjaarke Maas - Works 1999—2004
- Akhmatova Museum. Charke Maas Exhibition
- Charke Maas exhibition at the Bulgakov Museum
- Exhibition of works by Charke Maas "Pilgrim"
- Opening of an exhibition of works by Italo-Dutch artist Charke Maas
- Charke Maas. Pilgrim
- Presentation of the exhibition catalog. CHARKE MAAS. PILGRIM
- Opening of the Charke Maas exhibition. Pilgrim
- Charque Maas (Holland - Italy)
- Gently take a loop
- Magic Charke Maas
- Charke Maas Exhibition
- Peak age
- Bulgakov’s apartment, May 15, 2009