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Artwork by Kateryna Bortsova
I often call myself “a student forever” pour rire, because I started to study professionally with entering Kharkov State Art School in 1993. It has been lasting already for 20 years. After Kharkov State Art School I studied at Kharkov State Art College, than at Kharkov State Academy of Design and Fine Arts and so on. And I am still studying now at post-graduate course of Kharkov State Academy of Design and Fine Arts.
A statement that human shall study and develop oneself for a whole life impresses me very much. I consider that a talented person is obliged to find out something new throughout its life, to reach new more tops. If it ceases to develop oneself it will have nothing more to say to the audience by means of its works. At the present moment I am expanding my conception of the theoretical aspect of art and therefore I harmonize all the aspects of the talented person of mine.
Another aspect of this issue is a conception and understanding of academic education, a need therein. I have already stated that anyone may learn some technical skills. But you should to understand the way of application thereof. All the great artists got academic education. Any Avant-garde, non-figurative work of art is based on academic practice, for example, Pablo Picasso’s works.
Of course in the process of my education both at Kharkov State Art College and at Kharkov State Academy of Design and Fine Arts I often faced to pressure of teachers who often tried to impose their own vision and their own point of view. Certainly the personality of teacher plays a large role in creating a young talent. A teacher may either support and to give a push start, or to prevent any desire to create masterpieces, depending on circumstances. I have a nature of struggler, so even the most negative comments to my works could not lead me astray from the way I chose.
Despite the negative aspects which are typical of academic education, I still believe that it is necessary for each artist. But an artist shall not think that at the academy it would learn how to create real masterpieces. Throughout the whole life a talented person shall pass a difficult and even a suffering way which may be related either to external events or to comprehension of the individual self. An artist creates its own image of the world and therefore it correlates its imaginations with the common laws of universe. We know that each way shall lead to the temple but the temple may be erected inside the human’s soul.
Great work,you are already a master..good luck