Tetiana Bogdanova
Women's beauty inspires me again and again.
I come from Poltava, it is a cozy city in the central part of Ukraine, with a rich history.In 2009 I graduated from Poltava National Technical University. Y. Kondratyuk (PNTU), Faculty "Architectural", Specialty "Fine and decorative arts"There I was taught to create sculpture, graphics and painting.After graduating from university, in search of work, I moved to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, where I still live.
Painting is my passion, when I start to paint a picture it is like meditation and music helps me in this.
I have two sisters and two cousins, and probably this is what taught me to appreciate female beauty. Everyone in our family is beautiful and each individuality. Among my two sisters, I am the younger one and I really liked to watch how my sisters change and mature, how they bloom like flowers and become more and more beautiful every day. But a woman is not only her beauty, it is also emotions of happiness and sadness, sexuality and sensuality, strength and passion, anger and even revenge. I like to watch how women move, how they laugh and talk, female plasticity is incredible. The main series of my paintings at the moment is "Dessert Girls", where in portraits I convey female beauty emphasized by desserts made of ice cream, fruits, berries and chocolate. But in my paintings you will also find seductive women with snakes and warrior women with swords. I love to praise women's beauty and I want to dedicate my artwork to it.
I like to work in the technique of old masters without using paint solvents, all my paintings are painted exclusively with oil.
For paintings, I use oil paints and canvases stretched on stretchers. I like to use pastel colors, especially blues and pinks, they remind me of the sky at sunset and go well with desserts. I also like the combination of deep blue, red and black colors, for me these are the colors of passion.
My favorite artists are Boris Vallejo and William-Adolphe Bouguereau and they left an imprint on my perception of female beauty. Usually, when I paint one picture, I'm already planning several more. I want to reveal to the world many small images of beautiful, passionate, gentle, strong, militant and even dangerous women. The purpose of my work is to give joy. I want people to smile while looking at my paintings, I want to make people happy and give positive emotions, because only kindness can save the world.
Biography
Tetiana Bogdanova is Ukrainian artist, graphic artist, 3D artist, sculptor.
She was born on November 2, 1986 in Poltava, a cozy city in the central part of Ukraine. In 2009, she graduated from the Poltava National Technical University named after Yu. Kondratyuk, Faculty of Fine and Decorative and Applied Arts. In 2009, she moved to Kyiv, where she still lives. Tetiana worked in the IT field as a character sculptor, but her passion was always painting. Usually, you can see women's images in Tatiana's paintings.
On February 28, 2017, Tetiana Bogdanova took part in the art exhibition-fair "Art-kraina" for the first time.
On June 14, 2021, in the Odesa gallery "Rakurs", the artist took part in the collective exhibition "Meet Odesa!"
On June 26, 2021, Tetiana took part in the collective exhibition "One Summer Evening" in the Kyiv Gallery "Globus"
On October 16, 2021, the first personal exhibition "Dessert Girls" took place in the Kyiv Gallery "Globus", where Tetiana presented 22 paintings from the "Dessert Girls" series of paintings.
On December 1, 2021, the collective exhibition "IMAGINARIUM" was opened in Kyiv, at the Museum of History of Kyiv, where Tetyana presented her painting "Orange Juice".
On December 24, 2021, Tetiana took part in the collective exhibition "Christmas Evenings at the Globus Gallery" in Kyiv's Globus Gallery.
On May 28, 2022, the opening of the First International collective exhibition "Come Back ALIVE!" in the "Hlibnia" gallery on the territory of the "Sofia Kyivska" National Reserve, the painting "Free Ukraine" took part in the exhibition.
On September 16, 2022, at the address "Artist's House", Lvivska Square, 1-5 (3rd floor), Kyiv - the opening of the art exhibition "Art as a guarantee of Victory" took place. The painting "I believe" took part in the exhibition.
On August 3, 2023, the official opening of the exhibition "Renaissance" took place as part of the International Festival of Contemporary Art "TRACES" at the Galerini Gallery at Herzogstrasse 81, Munich, Germany. Oil paintings "Ice Cream" and "Eclair" went to the "Renaissance" exhibition.
Tetiana's paintings are in private collections of the United States of America, Japan, Austria, Slovenia, Germany and Ukraine.
