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Abstract Expressionist Painter Aelita Andre has taken the art world by storm, at 3 years of age.
Enjoy visiting Aelita Andre’s Fine Art Gallery and please check ‘Exhibitions’ to find out about upcoming shows.
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”
Pablo Picasso
"Vivid abstracts, full of life, movement and dazzling colour"
Germaine Greer
The Guardian
“Wunderkind...”
art Das Kunstmagazin
Jackson Pollock reborn”
Panorama Magazine
“Pee Wee Picasso”
Today Tonight, Channel 10
"Paintings of 2 year old girl
judged as Work of a Master”
Chinese News
"Gorgeous...magical
”The Age’ Art Critic Robert Nelson
Aelita Andre is a three year old abstract painter of Russian heritage and the youngest professional painter in the world. Her paintings continue to sell around the world to international buyers and she has been compared to Jackson Pollock by the press and her visionary style to Salvador Dali and Wassily Kandinsky.
Australian Art critic Robert Nelson and Associate Professor of Monash University says, “Aelita's art is an antidote to the oppressive qualities of expectation in western painting.”
Aelita paints with an ‘innocent eye’. Her paintings are a window into the primal and subconscious creative process - a field pioneered by Freud and Jung. Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso elevated spontaneous and accidental painting as a supreme creative process allowing us to peer into the workings of the mind.
Aelita had her first solo show in 2009 featuring all the works she painted as a one year old (she had just turned two when her exhibition opened) at the prestigious BSG gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Though still a child, she is a fully mature artist whose works are strikingly liberated, bold and vivacious. The show attracted worldwide media attention with 60 Minutes calling her “The Next Big Thing” and the Chinese press calling her paintings “The work of a Master”. BBC London rang to congratulate Aelita on her second birthday and for her immense achievement. The Australian media dubbed her “Pee Wee Picasso”.
While still a two year old Aelita was invited to Hong Kong where she staged her solo exhibition and painted live in front of over 60 Chinese and International media crews for over one hour (she had been scheduled to paint for only five minutes). To date Aelita has painted over 200 paintings, many of them large canvases. They radiate a genuine vitality, energy and beauty.
Rarely do we have the privilege of witnessing the act of creation in a child who is so dedicated and single-minded. There is a sheer joy and pleasure in the act of painting, the feel of the paints and process of combining colours. Often Aelita will sing or have a running commentary while painting.
Discover more about this extraordinary painter and also find out about upcoming shows. Her paintings may be purchased directly from Agora Gallery, New York. Please select from their website, the works that interest you.
"There is no must in art because art is free." -Wassily Kandinsky
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Andrew Mizzi
Extended Exhibition
Cosmos
Agora Gallery New York City
15 July to 9 September 2011
Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001
Major Exhibition
Biennale of Chianciano
Tuscany, Italy
17 September to 24 September 2011