The creative work of Svetlana Kropacheva is one of the highlights
of the Saint Petersburg diverse art. Admitting the fact that the art
is a spirit, representing itself in one or another creative aspect,
Svetlana Kropacheva became aware of her spirituality already in her
early years.
After finishing the B. Johansson School of Arts (since
1993, B. Johansson State Academic Arts Lyceum) in 1994, Svetlana
Kropacheva was admitted to the Faculty of Painting of I. Repin State
Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
A considerable progress she made in painting and drawing confirmed the
vocation Svetlana had chosen. During her third year in Academy she
attended the workshop of the outstanding teacher, the National Painter
of Russia, Professor V. Reihet, and diploma project («Self-Portrait
in the Studio» (2000)) was painted, when the workshop was led by the
National Painter of Russia, Professor V. Pimenov. Svetlana Kropacheva
graduated from the Repin Academic Institute with honors.
Creativeness allowed Svetlana to commence the exhibition
activities in her early student years in 1997. She determined her
independent and unique way in art in the beginning of the 21st century,
when the new generation of painters faced the problem of making
an uneasy choice in the sophisticated world of contemporary fine arts.
The first decade of Svetlana?s pictorial art was notable
for the variety of genres — portraits, landscapes, sketches, still life.
Each of them had its unique vivid expressiveness and elements
of graceful style.
In 2001, Svetlana Kropacheva presented her canvas «The
Bird of Happiness with the Attributes of Arts» (2001) at the large-scale
arts exhibition. Comparing the painting of the young artist with the
one of the French realist of the 18th century Jean-Baptiste Chardin
it is impossible to leave unnoticed the complexity of composition on the
canvas. Kropacheva depicts the palette with paints, Arkhangelsk wooden
toy placed on a small table and the church, and landscape view. This
piece of art proved to be her peculiar manifest: from now on, she
creates and structures the images of paintings within the complex
spatial environment, associatively relating them to either nature
or folklore milieu. Svetlana Kropacheva works in subtle, warm and cool
color spectrum: «Still Life with Rembrandt Reproduction» (1999), «Secret
Life», «Scarlet Flower» (2004).
In 2003 the personal exhibition of Svetlana Krpoacheva
and Vasily Kryukov called «Canvas» took place in the Blue Salon
of St. Petersburg Union of Artists. Among «en plein air» landscapes,
portraits and still life of the two artists, there was a sketch
of Svetlana Kropacheva?s canvas «Peter I Ride out» dedicated to the
foundation of Saint-Petersburg and establishment of Russian Fleet.
Svetlana?s paintings presented on this exhibition are recognized due
to originality and outstanding peculiar style. «My city. Self-Portrait»
(2003), «Venetian Dreams» (2003) and «Golden Evening» (2003) are
particularly remarkable for coloring multiplicity.
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The paintings of Svetlana Kropacheva can be found in the
private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Great
Britain and China.
