Maria Isaeva (Ukraine)

PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE

2025 01 31 – 2025 03 02

   „Portraiture has always been something special to me. Throughout the history of art a person has been portrayed. It has always been important for every artist to know how to draw a model, it is the most interesting thing - it is a classic. Nowadays photography is leading the way as the easiest way to capture yourself in the moment, capture for the future, capture for memory...

   But drawing or painting the human body is an emotional and physical work. At the same time any work of art is energy, so a portrait as one of the most real works of art carries the energy of two people, it is the connection of two personalities - the author and the model, a portrait is always a dialogue. Because no one is the same, a human being is an incredible work of nature, we are absolutely unique; no matter how similar people are, they still have different personalities, everyone's life is different, there is nothing surprising in that. That's why I like to draw it. I always draw models in the real time, it makes me not to copy, but to learn and discover this complicated human nature. When I make a portrait, I try to capture a person's gaze. Then I can see a lot of emotions, truth about them, and I draw their character.“