Nine years ago, a girl with a unique talent was born. Her name is Aelita Andre. The world's youngest artist has already sold over one million dollars worth of paintings.
Short biography
A talented girl from Australia. Her family lives in the city of Melbourne. The birthday of the little artist in winter is January 9th. She turns 10 next year.
Aelita Andre's parents are also into art. Her father is the famous Australian artist Michael Andre, and her mother, Nika Kalashnikova, works on creating art photographs. The mother of the gifted girl is from Russia.
Hobbies and passions
Aside from the special talent, 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 the most.
Also, nine-year-old Aelita enjoys playing the piano and attends gymnastics training. She enjoys making crafts, which she often brings to kindergarten. The artist enjoys watching TV. Likeall children her age, she loves animal shows and cartoons. She is especially interested in videos about dinosaurs. The girl is fond of astronomy, she often watches the program of Carl Sagan "Space".
Discovery of Talent
Drawing is the hobby of the whole Andre family. Little Aelita watched the creative process of her parents from early childhood. She saw how adults paint on large canvases right on the floor. Once Michael Andre, while working on another painting, left a piece of paper unattended for a while. When he returned to the canvas, he saw that the nine-month-old baby crawled to the paints on her own and smeared them simply with her hands. Aelita Andre did it with such enthusiasm and passion that the surprised father allowed his daughter to continue painting.
Since then, the girl has been constantly creating 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, my mother took Aelita Andre's drawings and showed them to her friend Mark Jemison, director of the Brunsik Gallery. Nika Kalashnikova did not tell the art critic who the author of the works was in order to avoid bias. Mark Jamison rated several paintings and exhibited them at a group show in Melbourne. When the public found out how old the artist was, everyone was shocked. Some made accusations against the parents, allegedly they use their daughter for profit. But Nika and Michael never forced the baby to draw, it's completely herinitiative.
Literally a few months later, the artist Aelita Andre became famous in China. Her paintings were exhibited at a group exhibition in Hong Kong. The masterpieces of an Australian girl made a splash in the art world. One of her paintings sold for $24,000.
Solo exhibitions
Five years ago, the whole world learned about a young talent named Aelita Andre. The artist's work has been exhibited at the Agora Gallery in the United States. 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 exposition included more than twenty paintings, nine of which were sold immediately for more than 30 thousand dollars. The cost of the paintings ranged from $10,000. After such success, the girl began to be called "baby Picasso", "phenomenon", "wunderkind". The exhibition was called The Prodigy of Color.
Already three months later, Aelita's paintings went to Italy. In the city of Tuscany in September 2011, the second individual exhibition of the young artist was opened. Most of the paintings sold have joined the exhibition range of private collectors.
Recognized by world art historians
Michael Andre and Nika Kalashnikova support their daughter in every possible way. Parents provided the young artist with everything necessary. They equipped a modern workshop for her, bought a variety of paints and sparkles.
Artist Aelita Andre works in the style of expressive abstract art. Her paintings have received worldwide recognition. Well-known critics and experts in the field of art appreciated the girl's paintings as highly artistic. In their opinion, movement and color, composition and liveliness play a special role in Aelita's masterpieces.
A young talented artist sets herself up for work in her own way. She comes up with a story, which she then embodies on canvas. In her paintings, the girl uses not only acrylic paints, but also other materials, such as tree bark or branches, dinosaur figures or balls.
A small Australian artist herself determines the place and time for creativity. Sometimes she has a desire to paint even at night. In the process of creative height Aelita Andre (whose paintings are recognized as highly artistic) can be distracted from work for several hours. But after some time, the girl will definitely return to the canvas to finish her next masterpiece.
Some art historians have repeatedly expressed doubts about the complete authorship of the artist's paintings, they are too good. In their opinion, one of the baby's parents could "make a hand" in the masterpieces. But Nika and Michael claim that their daughter is simply obsessed with painting and they do not interfere in her creation process.
Paintings of 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 are located inMuseum of the Academy of Arts in the cultural capital of the Russian Federation - in St. Petersburg. The exposition presents more than fifty paintings by Aelita, collected over all her years of creativity. Museum visitors also saw photographic works, sculptures, personal items and pencil sketches of the artist.
Aelita Andre's sound paintings are also presented at the exhibition. 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 plan of the organizers, "Music of Infinity" was supposed to last a month. But the Russian audience 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
Australian girl has painted many canvases in her eight years of creativity. She presented such paintings as Dinosaur Island, Space Ocean, String City, Fairy Island, Peacock in Space, Kangaroo, Southern Cross.
According to Aelita Andre herself, she will paint for the rest of her life. She needs painting like air and water. The girl-phenomenon plans to present more than one masterpiece to the world. We wish her good luck and inspiration!
