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About Art
The term art is used to describe a particular type of
creative production generated by human beings, and the term usually
implies some degree of aesthetic value. An artist makes a work of
art for various purposes, such as creating an experience for others
or as part of a ritual. In this section we'd like to introduce art
work by Rae Chichilnitsky.
Rae Chichilnitsky was born in Kishinev (formerly USSR, currently
Moldova) where she spent first half of her life studying classical
music and fine art and earning her MA degree in Musicology and Fine
Arts from the Institute of Art.. While pursuing her studies she
worked as a freelance book illustrator. After coming to the United
States in 1976 Rae has changed her professional orientation and
joined the corporate world continuing to express her artistic
nature part-time. In 2002 she has left her successful career in a
major corporation in order to dedicate her time fully to pursuing
her creative interests. Rae is a multi-talented, versatile artist
who enjoys complete artistic freedom, bringing the whole gamut of
concepts, moods, emotions and fantasies to her work, which involves
multiple genres, media, applications and covers a wide range of
subjects -- from deeply philosophical to humorous, from the ones
dedicated to a purpose to the ones with no purpose other than
simple decorative pleasure --and forces the individual to pause and
wonder just how seriously one should take oneself. Some of her work
was created with children in mind, and some is more adult-oriented.
She is equally comfortable with monochrome and color.
Although one can find a number of eclectic influences, Rae s style
is completely unique. Without being attached to any of these
influences and moving freely among them, Rae developed her own
style purely from her creative ability and abundant imagination.
Inspired by different emotions and interests, Rae is equally gifted
in expressing herself in painting a Byzantine-style icon one day
and decorating a furniture piece the next. She always creates
something new and original, preferring this approach to copying
existing styles or images. Being multi-talented and feeling a
natural connection among visuals, words and sounds, Rae sometimes
merges all these components into one, creating synthetic imagery.
All this gives the viewer something of special value in that they
know what they are seeing has never existed before. In the past,
Rae s work was exhibited at a several times and some of her work
has been sold and now resides in private collections.
We are proud to present Rae s most recent figurative and
non-figurative abstract paintings.
Here s what Rae says about her work: Art had always been my
passion, but only recently, I ve decided to return to it
professionally. I see beauty and magic in everything and am quite
eclectic: from time to time I fall under spell of different things
and have a need to wander into an uncharted territory and try
something new. All my creations come from my imagination and are
100% original. I enjoy working with various subjects, media and
styles: old and modern, eastern and western, deep and mundane,
realistic and abstract, as they all blend naturally into expression
of richness of life and human condition. I mostly work in acrylics,
markers, pencils, watercolor and mixed media. My artwork is done on
stretched canvas, paper, Bristol board and wood and I use only
high-quality artist grade materials. I accept work on
commission.
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