Russian artist Natasha Rosenbaum explores the spectrum of human emotion with her dynamic visual expressions of paint on canvas. Using a variety of mediums including watercolor and oil paints, Rosenbaum renders nervous lines against torn patches, and interplaying areas of light and shadow. By blending varying textures, brushstrokes, and colors, Rosenbaum heightens the emotional quality of each of her evocative paintings. Drawing much of her inspiration from Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, Rosenbaum chooses traditional subjects: primarily female nudes, flowers, and landscapes, but her resulting images present a decidedly contemporary reflection.
Although academically grounded, Rosenbaum’s works are clearly emotional in content. Common subjects, often considered mundane, are represented with an underlying passion and vitality that imparts a strong visual dynamism to the overall composition.
Subjects are softy rendered in inventively conceived hues, gently blending into the background, as if symbiotically transferring energy from one entity to the other.
With an academic background in engineering, Rosenbaum went on to study fine art at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1991, where she honed her craft in the traditional Academic style, studying the great works of the Masters.
Her work is exhibited and collected throughout Russia, Great Britain, Spain, France, the United States, Canada, and Israel.
Joyce Asper,
ARTisSpectrum
russian