Anna Tsvell is a full-time contemporary abstract figurative artist currently based in Moscow, Russia.
Self - taught, she started her art career in 2014 and developed her own distinctive artistic style which makes her portraits extremely recognizable and attractive for the art collectors all over the world.
Long curved necks ,chaotically combined parts of the face and body are the main distinctive features of Anna’s remarkable style. Anna invented her own manner of painting hands which also became one of the hallmarks of her style and integral part of her paintings.
Since the beginning of 2019 Anna's artworks start to look more abstract : women's shapes are woven into the visible and invisible lines . By the middle of 2019 her paintings become more and more expressive but still have that surrealistic flavor . Figurativeness by Anna Tsvell is hidden and deconstructed .
Anna works with acrylics and mixed media on canvas , also her favorite mediums are ink and watercolors on paper.
Paintings and drawings by Anna Tsvell are in private collections of musicians , film directors , photographers, art collectors and art lovers all over the world.
Anna’s art was exhibited in different art galleries in US ( Los Angeles basically where Anna lived and worked for about 6 months ) and Europe .
In addition to her active and productive artistic life Anna is working on the development of her personal author's methodology of creating a unique style from scratch. Also she is a friend of Winsor & Newton brand, the author of expert articles and master classes about art supplies using.
Self - taught, she started her art career in 2014 and developed her own distinctive artistic style which makes her portraits extremely recognizable and attractive for the art collectors all over the world.
Long curved necks ,chaotically combined parts of the face and body are the main distinctive features of Anna’s remarkable style. Anna invented her own manner of painting hands which also became one of the hallmarks of her style and integral part of her paintings.
Since the beginning of 2019 Anna's artworks start to look more abstract : women's shapes are woven into the visible and invisible lines . By the middle of 2019 her paintings become more and more expressive but still have that surrealistic flavor . Figurativeness by Anna Tsvell is hidden and deconstructed .
Anna works with acrylics and mixed media on canvas , also her favorite mediums are ink and watercolors on paper.
Paintings and drawings by Anna Tsvell are in private collections of musicians , film directors , photographers, art collectors and art lovers all over the world.
Anna’s art was exhibited in different art galleries in US ( Los Angeles basically where Anna lived and worked for about 6 months ) and Europe .
In addition to her active and productive artistic life Anna is working on the development of her personal author's methodology of creating a unique style from scratch. Also she is a friend of Winsor & Newton brand, the author of expert articles and master classes about art supplies using.
Artist's statement :
Anna Tsvell is focusing on exploring the anatomy of such beautiful emotions as sadness, melancholy, dreaminess and it' s connection with the anatomy of the body through female surrealistic abstract portraits . Art by Anna Tsvell is quite dark, full of hidden and obvious symbols and Anna's personal fixations .
The heroine of Anna's artworks is placed in beautiful interiors or some strange situations - it seems that she must experience a lot of different feelings but there is tranquility or sadness or detachment on her face . She was dancing, drinking champagne or enjoying her breakfast but for a second she catches that moment of sudden sadness or melancholy , sits on the velvet coach and stares into the void - and this is exactly that moment when Anna depicts her. The heroine is enjoying her life , she celebrates it, she is a hedonist with grotesque huge black sad eyes.
Anna Tsvell is focusing on exploring the anatomy of such beautiful emotions as sadness, melancholy, dreaminess and it' s connection with the anatomy of the body through female surrealistic abstract portraits . Art by Anna Tsvell is quite dark, full of hidden and obvious symbols and Anna's personal fixations .
The heroine of Anna's artworks is placed in beautiful interiors or some strange situations - it seems that she must experience a lot of different feelings but there is tranquility or sadness or detachment on her face . She was dancing, drinking champagne or enjoying her breakfast but for a second she catches that moment of sudden sadness or melancholy , sits on the velvet coach and stares into the void - and this is exactly that moment when Anna depicts her. The heroine is enjoying her life , she celebrates it, she is a hedonist with grotesque huge black sad eyes.
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"Anna Tsvell is an artist who seems to be too young for such a distinctive artistic style. She paints surreal portraits with watercolours and acrylics, putting some weird details and patterns looking like funguses, and making the necks long resembling the pictures of Anna Akhmatova and oil paintings by Amedeo Modigliani " .
Strekoza Magazine, UK.
SELECTED CLIENTS :
- Art on a postcard , charity project , June 2019
- Dior for The Fashionable Lampoon : Saint/Surreal article including Dior pre fall 2018 photoset ( April 2018 issue ).
- The Fashionable Lampoon : the cover (September 2017 issue) , the Dot Circle 2017 project .
- Tiffany & Co : Tiffany City HardWear collection for The Fashionable Lampoon project
- GUESS : Denim Day in Rome
- Face Factory Paris
- Try Merry : Anna’s illustrations as a part of the collective print “We Are The People” .
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- July 2019 - Old Spitalfields Market ( charity project by Art On A Postcard, Ben Eine as a co-curator ), London, UK.
- May 2019 - Stony Stratford Gallery, Milton Keynes , UK .
- April 2019 - IZO Art Gallery , Moscow , Russia .
- September 2018 - "Perfect 10" group art show, La Bodega Gallery , San Diego, California, US.
- May 2018 - Kvartina Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia .
- September 2017 - Milano Fashion Library , Milan, Italy .
- February 2017 - Chocolate and Art Show ,The Vortex, Los Angeles, California, US .
- January 2017 - Stay Peculiar ( Tim Burton tribute art show ) - LAM Gallery , Los Angeles, Hollywood, California, US .
- December 2016 - ARTX Gallery , Long Beach , California, US .
- November 2016 - co-LAb gallery , Los Angeles, California, US.
- November 2016 - The Neutra Gallery and Museum , Los Angeles, California, US .
- October 2016 - The Neutra Gallery and Museum , Los Angeles, California, US .
- September 2016 - Manhattan Beach Library , Los Angeles, California, US .
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS :
- Peredvizhnik ( leading art supplies store in Russia ) - Golden acrylics expert review + an exclusive review about Golden Open slow-drying acrylics.
- Public talk and testing of Winsor & Newton acrylic paints at Peredvizhnik ( leading art supplies store in Russia )
- Peredvizhnik ( leading art supplies store in Russia ) - Da Vinci synthetic brushes expert review
- Will Magazine , Issue 3 Attraction Terrestre , July 2019 .
- Brenda Magazine , Issue 3 RED , December 2018 .
- The Art Avenue : focus on (the featured post) and artists catalogue .
- The Fashionable Lampoon : artworks for Dior ,the "Saint/Surreal" article , April 2018 issue .
- Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Issue 020 , March 2018, Artist Snapshot .
- The Fashionable Lampoon Magazine , Cover art for the Issue 10, September 2017 .
- Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, June 2017 Art Throbs .
- The Fashionable Lampoon Magazine , April 2017 , The Dot Circle .
- Volition Magazine May 2017 issue ( featured artist at pages 172- 179 )
- Depeche Mode official Facebook page - one of the Depeche Mode fan takeover
- Artospective online art magazine , February 2017 .
- Art for the website of the "Selling Sex In The 21st Century" book by James Tugend .
- Emboss Magazine, Issue 4 , June 2016 , cover art and interview .
- Vivid Fashion and Illustration Magazine, Issue #1, Spring 2016
- Glow Project , November 2016 .
- Art Muzeo Magazine, Issue 3, May 2016 .
- “Il cinema di Jim Jarmusch”, book by Umberto Mentana , digital illustration .