Tatiana Grudinina
About
Tatiana is a professional artist, based in the USA, California. She was born in Moscow, Russia. Tatiana received a prestigious art education, graduating from Kosygin Moscow Textile University in 1980 and began working as a textile designer. After the birth of her two children, Tatiana turned her attention to children's literature. Working with publishers, she has illustrated dozens of books and magazines and designed greeting cards.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in her career came a break, caused by the need to adapt to new realities. The creative revival occurred in 2008, when she began painting under the guidance of the famous painter and member of the Moscow Union of Painters N. Krutov. Tatiana participated in many exhibitions organized by the Moscow Union of Artists and other creative organizations.
In 2014, she emigrated to the United States. Living in America gave a new impetus to her art. Inspired by the colorful California nature, Tatiana created a series of landscape works such as "California Breeze," " Ocean QR codes" series.
Tatiana practice swimming, which helps her to keep her mental and physical balance and inspiring her to create painting, dedicated to swimming theme. Her life position is based on the philosophy of stoicism, and this helps her to overcome difficulties and strive for the best version of herself.
Tatiana is full of new creative ideas and is in constant development of herself as an artist. Some of her works have been acquired by private collectors from the USA, Germany, Switzerland and Russia.
Artist Statement
My art is based on the best achievements of the past centuries. My artistic method is organically connected with the achievements of outstanding artists such as Fernand Léger, Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Picasso. I am interested in the “luchism” of the avant-garde artist Larionov, as well as the experience of many other innovative artists of the early 20th century.
The painting “Egyptian Queen with a Shark”, intuitively created by me in the distant 1993, reflected the emergence of a new era of social-communication through the internet network.
I create freely in the artistic flow of metamodernism and develop my own style, which I call “Lines of Force”. Such lines harmonize with the modern physical theory of strings, according to which they are the force that shapes the universe. I explore how these lines can shape the space of my canvas. To better express the meaning of the painting, these lines can be modified: vibrating in waves of different frequencies like strings, spiraling or remaining straight. I also find a connection between the way I create harmonious compositions and the divine symmetry of fractals, which are a reflection of the mathematical basis of the universe. I often combine the abstract and the figurative, the fictional and the real in my work. Creating such compositions is a fascinating game for me. For this reason, my works, whether plein air or sketches, are impulsive and are often independent works of art that do not need to be finalized in the studio.
My creativity is based on the rich experience of my personal life and various hobbies, my desire to share my worldview. I try to improve my skills, find new forms of embodiment of ideas arising in the subconscious, reevaluate them to determine the strategy of their realization. I like to try different approaches and experiment with different mediums, but I always stay true to the basic idea of my art.