The youngest artist in the world. Aelita Andre, a small child and a great artist
One of the Eastern teachings states that there is a huge difference in perception between a person looking at an elephant and an elephant seeing a person. A person knows certain things about elephants and already views them through the prism of this knowledge, but an elephant has no idea who a person is, and therefore perceives him without distortion. Based on this, every inhabitant of the planet, according to eastern wisdom, must strive for the same crystal purity of perception of the world as the aforementioned elephant. Then things will find their way true meaning and will sparkle with the fullness of colors, sounds, and possibilities.
Here lives a seven-year-old girl in Australia Aelita Andre, and she was able to convey her childish, pure perception of the world to us, adults, through her unusually talented works. The girl is an experienced artist: she created her first painting at 9 months, not yet able to walk. Dad, Australian artist Michael Andre, left a blank canvas in the living room, she crawled to it and began squeezing paints out of tubes... And what she got as a result of this mixing brought the little one into indescribable delight.
Since then, Aelita, thanks to the care of her parents, had everything for painting: her own spacious workshop, great amount canvases different sizes, a lot of acrylic paints, powdered dyes, sparkles, stars, butterflies, kitchen sponges, foil, various toys, details, beads, seed beads and all sorts of things so that the inquisitive child’s mind and the boundless imagination inherent only in a child find their splash on the canvas. The young artist is very serious and concentrated, her movements seem to be dictated by childish wisdom. With the responsibility of a creator, she creates more and more masterpieces.
But her paintings are recognized as highly artistic, according to critics, artists, and art critics around the world. They recognize that color, composition, movement, and liveliness play a special role in her work.
Aelita begins to create around the canvas with a game, into which she immerses herself, as if in serious meditation. Concentratingly arranging figures on the canvas, pouring rivers of paint, mixing different textured components, she is captivated by the story that is born in her head, simultaneously transferring it to the canvas. The artist says that her paintings are abstract, but they contain concrete objects about which she can tell a whole story.
Aelita is the smallest professional artist on the planet. Her first exhibition took place when she was two years old. The talent, of course, was passed on to her, first of all, at the genetic level. After all, in addition to her father, an artist, her mother, Russian emigrant Nika Kalashnikova, is a photographer, and her grandfather was also a professional painter. The brilliant little girl gives her viewer the opportunity to look at the world with the pure eyes of a child again, as they once did in childhood.
Her canvases, made using the technique of expressive abstractionism, sometimes resemble portholes looking directly into space. Fabulous scatterings of intergalactic dust and the flickering of distant planets tear us away from the Earth, relieving us of gravity. The pictures whisper to us that it is never too late to become a child again, to break through multi-layered rules, norms, teachings about understanding the essence of things and see the world in the form of a huge, alluring space, where many mysteries lurk that we still have to solve... But , with whom she is compared, said:
“It took me my whole life to learn to draw like a child.”
The girl was luckier: her parents recognized her talent as a painter in time and created all the conditions for its development. Aelita Andre has her whole life ahead of her, and she already possesses the skill that the great Pablo dreamed of and is improving it every day.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia: Aelita Andre(Aelita Andre), Australian abstract artist, known for her surrealist painting style, is a member of the National Association visual arts Australia (National Association for the Visual Arts). Everything is fine, that's just it we're talking about about a 4 year old girl)))
Yesterday I came across an article about this little girl, and ended up stuck on the Internet for an extra hour, at least the topic seemed so unusual and controversial to me.
Aelita is the daughter of Australian artist Michael Andre and Russian photographer Nika Kalashnikova. The baby started drawing at 9 months, and her parents (well done!) created ideal conditions for her to continue practicing her interesting painting.
There is a video where she paints: her face, her hair, her clothes are absolutely smeared with paints, she is concentrated and serious, in a separate studio room, completely “decorated” with colored blots. On the floor - large canvas(with a painted background) and a sea of jars, tubes, brushes, everything professional quality and in a large assortment. The child truly creates, without fear of getting dirty and ruining something. A spectacle that can be watched for a long time)))
Some works have names - this is "Dinosaur Island"
This is the surreal "Eagle" performed by Aelita
What is most unpleasantly surprising are the comments - some say “an ordinary children’s daub”, some recognize the talent, but doubt the authenticity of the authorship and the fact that the artist father does not take part in their creation. Some people write that my child would like such a studio, and I would like so much free time and money to study with him...
There is an interesting statement that is most appropriate here: “The difference between an abstract artist and you is that you only “could”, but he painted.”
In June of this year, Aelita’s personal exhibition took place in New York, entitled “The Miracle of Color.” Her paintings are selling successfully - the amount of 32 paintings sold amounted to more than 800 thousand dollars. Some people spit, not wanting to recognize children’s blots as art, some buy and hang paintings on the wall, admiring and calling it surrealism, close to the work of Dali.
The baby made a splash))) I hope a wonderful future awaits her, and the most inveterate skeptics will be convinced of her talent. And talent, even without the makings of genius, can be developed in exactly the same ways as Aelita’s parents.
Aelita Andre, an artist from Australia, made the whole world talk about herself and became a real event in the art world. The fact is that Aelita is the youngest artist in the world and this fact does not stop her from creating stunning canvases that are snapped up by art connoisseurs like pies on market day.
Aelita Andre was born on January 9, 2007 and already at 9 months old she became addicted to drawing. The girl’s parents (Michael Andre (artist) is Australian, Nika Kalashnikov’s mother (photo artist) is Russian) immediately drew their attention to the unusualness of her drawings. They were very different from the drawings made by her peers and even older children. They were very similar to those abstract paintings that hang in the most famous galleries and museums around the world. Children's abstract thinking works wonders. She doesn’t just draw little sketches, but she does it on a large scale and you can feel the underlying meaning in each painting.
Art critics recognized Aelita Andre the youngest professional artist in the world. In addition, she became one of the five smartest children on the planet. She has two solo exhibitions in the USA and Italy. The most expensive painting was sold for 30 thousand dollars, and total cost All paintings sold have already exceeded a million dollars. The young artist’s style was defined as abstract expressionism. To her works, which she paints with acrylic, the artist often adds three-dimensional objects - feathers, branches, toys, etc.
String City
Space Ocean
Fairy Island
Dance of the Fire Dragon
Peacock in space
Autumn rain
Asteroid
South Cross
Leopard or Dragon Luck
Dinosaur Planet
Nine years ago a girl was born with unique talent. Her name is Aelita Andre. The most young artist in the world has already sold paintings worth over one million dollars.
short biography
A talented girl from Australia. Her family lives in the city of Melbourne. The little artist’s birthday in winter is January 9th. She turns 10 next year.
Aelita Andre's parents are also involved in art. Her dad is the famous Australian artist Michael Andre, and her mother, Nika Kalashnikova, works on creating artistic photographs. The mother of a gifted girl is from Russia.
Hobbies and passions
If you don't take into account special talent, then Aelita Andre is quite an ordinary girl. She learned two languages: English and Russian (she prefers to speak the latter). The young artist loves chocolate most of all.
Nine-year-old Aelita also enjoys playing the piano and attends gymnastics training. She enjoys making crafts, which she often brings to kindergarten. The artist enjoys watching TV. Like all children her age, she loves programs about animals and cartoons. She is especially interested in videos about dinosaurs. The girl is interested in astronomy and often watches the program “Cosmos”.
Discovery of talent
Drawing is a hobby for the whole Andre family. Little Aelita from the very early childhood watched creative process parents. She saw adults painting on large canvases directly on the floor. One day, Michael Andre, while working on another painting, left a piece of paper unattended for some time. When he returned to the canvas, he saw that the nine-month-old baby had crawled to the paints on her own and was simply smearing them with her hands. Aelita Andre did this with such delight and passion that the surprised father allowed his daughter to continue drawing.
Since then, the girl constantly created with her parents, who gave her separate sheets of paper for this.
The rapid development of the artist's career
In 2009, when the baby was not yet 2 years old, her mother took Aelita Andre’s drawings and showed them to her friend Mark Jamison, director of the Brunsic gallery. Nika Kalashnikova did not tell the art critic who the author of the works was in order to avoid bias. Mark Jamison appreciated several paintings and exhibited them in a group exhibition in Melbourne. When the public found out how old the artist was, everyone was shocked. Some made accusations against the parents, allegedly using their daughter for profit. But Nika and Michael never forced the little girl to draw; it was entirely her initiative.
Just a few months later, the artist Aelita Andre became famous in China. Her paintings were exhibited at the group Masterpieces of the Australian girl created a sensation in the art world. One of her paintings was sold for 24 thousand dollars.
Solo exhibitions
Five years ago the whole world learned about young talent named Aelita Andre. The artist's works were exhibited at the Agora Gallery in the USA. The personal vernissage took place in the summer of 2011 in New York, it lasted for 22 days. The exhibition was organized at the expense of the author’s personal funds.
The exhibition included more than twenty paintings, nine of which were immediately sold for more than 30 thousand dollars. The cost of the paintings varied within $10,000. After such success, the girl began to be called “baby Picasso”, “phenomenon”, “prodigy”. The exhibition was called The Prodigy of Color.
Three months later, Aelita’s paintings went to Italy. In September 2011, the second individual exhibition of the young artist was opened in the city of Tuscany. Most of the paintings sold were added to the exhibits of private collectors.
Recognition by world art critics
Michael Andre and Nika Kalashnikova support their daughter in every possible way. Her parents provided the young artist with everything she needed. They equipped her with a modern workshop and bought a wide variety of paints and glitter.
Artist Aelita Andre works in the style of expressive abstract art. Her paintings have received worldwide recognition. Notable critics and art experts praised the girl’s paintings as highly artistic. In their opinion, movement and color, composition and liveliness play a special role in Aelita’s masterpieces.
The young talented artist approaches her work in her own way. She comes up with a story, which she then puts on canvas. In her paintings the girl uses not only acrylic paints, but also other materials, for example, tree bark or branches, dinosaur figures or balls.
The little Australian artist herself determines the place and time for her creativity. Sometimes she has a desire to paint even at night. In the process of creative peak, Aelita Andre (whose paintings are recognized as highly artistic) can be distracted from work for several hours. But after some time, the girl always returns to the canvas to finish her next masterpiece.
Some art critics have repeatedly expressed doubts about the full authorship of the artist’s paintings; they are too good. In their opinion, one of the baby’s parents could have had a hand in the masterpieces. But Nika and Michael claim that their daughter is simply obsessed with painting and they do not interfere with her creation process.
Paintings by the youngest artist in St. Petersburg
This year, on September 2, Aelita Andre’s personal exhibition “Music of Infinity” opened in Russia. The works of the Australian artist-phenomenon were placed in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in cultural capital Russian Federation - in St. Petersburg. The exhibition features more than fifty paintings by Aelita, collected over all her years of creativity. Museum visitors also saw photographic works, sculptures, personal belongings and pencil sketches of the artist.
The exhibition also features sound paintings by Aelita Andre. A nine-year-old girl independently and unconsciously created a new movement in the art world, “magical expressionism.” She combined painting and sound.
According to the organizers' plan, "Music of Infinity" was supposed to last a month. But Russian viewers liked the works of the youngest artist on the planet so much that the exhibition was extended for another ten days.
Paintings painted by young Aelita
Over the course of eight years of creativity, the Australian girl has painted many canvases. She presented such films as “Dinosaur Island”, “Cosmic Ocean”, “String City”, “Fairy Island”, “Peacock in Space”, “Kangaroo”, “Southern Cross”.
According to Aelita Andre herself, she will draw for the rest of her life. She needs painting like she needs air and water. The phenomenon girl plans to present more than one masterpiece to the world. We wish her good luck and inspiration!
On June 4, 2011, the Agora Gallery, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, opened a solo exhibition of 4-year-old artist from Australia Aelita Andre. Gallery director Angela Di Bello said she was surprised that the paintings that struck her were created by a little girl.
Perhaps Pablo Picasso was right when he once said: “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, and whole life to draw like a child,” which is why Aelita’s talent was revealed so early.
Picasso had no idea that almost 40 years after his death, the paintings of the little mischievous child would be compared to his priceless masterpieces.
Despite such young age, the girl was recognized by art critics all over the world, who praised the works of the talented surrealist child with great surprise.
Aelita Andre from Melbourne began drawing at 11 months, and the miracle child was not helped at all by artists, or even by her own parents - Australian dad Michael Andre or Russian mother Nikka Kalashnikova, who claim that their four-year-old daughter is even angry when they interfere with her creativity - they don’t even let her help her choose colors.
Thus, the girl became interested in painting even before she could walk, and her first painting was bought when she was only 2 years old.
According to gallery director Angela Di Bello, Aelita's work is distinguished by excellent color, excellent composition, movement and liveliness.
Despite the fact that the young artist is only 4 years old, dozens of her works (more than 30) have already been purchased by private collectors. At the same time, the most expensive of Aelita’s paintings was sold for 30 thousand dollars.
Aelita's parents, Australian artist Michael Andre and Russian photographer Nika Kalashnikova, claim that their daughter showed interest in painting when she was no more than 9 months old.
They reject accusations of child labor, claiming that the girl enjoys working on her
Paintings, independently choosing colors and time for painting. Like any of her peers, she is often distracted, but then she certainly returns to what she started and finishes the picture.
Aelita Andre’s personal website states that she is a member of the National Association of Australian Artists (National Association for the Visual Arts), works in the technique of “automatism” and “accidentalism”, is “obsessed with painting”, loves to sing, play the piano, the cartoon “My little Pony" and chocolate. The girl speaks mainly Russian.