Tatyana Apraksina

Tatyana Apraksina ( rus, Татья́на Апра́ксина, p=tɐˈtʲjanə ɐˈpraksʲɪnə, a=Tatyana Apraksina.ru.vorb.oga) is an artist and writer who also produces the magazine ''Apraksin Blues''.

Career

Apraksina settled in Leningrad in 1963 and started to live on Apraksin Lane (''Apraksin pereulok'') in 1972. The music-inflected unofficial culture of the time began to intersect actively with her life. Moscow: Agraf, Kraft+, 2003. . St. Petersburg: Contrast, St. Petersburg State University, 2015. 600 p. + 3 CDs. Tel Aviv, Israel. Nov. 29, 2012

In 1974, "Apraksina" became her creative pseudonym. Her salon on Apraksin Lane hosted the original members of Akvarium, as well as nascent songwriter Mike Naumenko, who by the early 1980s as the founder of Zoopark and blues music. The St. Petersburg Times. April 18, 2012Urban, Michael, with Andrei Evdokimov. ''Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times.'' Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. P. 32, 90, 93. In one of his late interviews, Mike revealed that "all issongs are dedicated to her."

Primarily self-taught, St. Petersburg. No.4 (159), February 20, 1998. Philadelphia, Penn. March 5–18, 2003, No. 5 (88). Baku, Azerbaijan. No. 129, July 12, 2003. P. 33. Apraksina managed to establish herself as a graphic artist, employed by factories, stores and movie theaters. Themes of early exhibits of her independent creative work included the courtyards of old Leningrad, Moscow: VAAP-Inform, January–March 1988, p. 72-73. particularly nearby Apraksin Dvor. She then began to gather material for a new direction in her work by studying the culture of music and musicians. USSR Composers Union and Ministry of Culture, summer 1987. She received permission to attend rehearsals of what is now the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and of other ensembles, doing so for four to six hours a day, getting to know musicians and producing hundreds of charcoal sketches, and reading music-related literature. She exhibited this early music-related work at what is now the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. The hall's director, Dmitry Ivanovich Sollertinsky, facilitated her work by giving her an on-site studio and a pass granting access to nearly all rehearsals and concerts at the Philharmonia. During this period, Apraksina experienced conflicts with the KGB, nominally related to her contacts with foreigners.

Students and relatives of Dmitri Shostakovich assisted in the creation of Apraksina's first portrait of the composer, known for its unusual approach of depicting the composer's face at different ages on the same canvas. As part of the observances of Shostakovich's 80th birthday, the artist donated the portrait to what is now the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which hung the work in Room 36, where the composer taught his classes. The portrait was later moved to today's Saint Peterburg Composers' Union, where it remains on permanent display.

In later years, Apraksina's exploration of classical music continued. Russia. No.1 (5), 1991. In 1987, the Kurchatov Institute and the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture were among institutions in Moscow to host Apraksina's exhibits. She also worked with the Borodin Quartet. Apraksina's relationship with the composer Aleksandr Lokshin, occasioned by painting his portrait Berkeley, Calif., 2016. just prior to his death, would remain significant in later years as the artist took an active role in rehabilitating the slandered composer's reputation through her writing. Moscow: Dialog-Moscow State University Press, 1998 2nd edition, expanded. Moscow: MAKS-Press, 2005. The writing also embodied a first public statement of the risks to which painting and displaying the portrait had exposed her career. From ''"Genius of Evil" and "A Face That Held No Riddles"'', 1st edition. Moscow: MAKS-Press, 2003.

Apraksina first exhibited in the United States as a Soviet artist through the Art League of Chicago and Soros Foundation support. The seven-month tour, featuring eleven exhibits from the East to the West Coast of the U.S., also included the artist's lectures.

In 1994, 1995 and 1997, Apraksina exhibited and lectured at the Ivan Sollertinsky International Music Festival in Vitebsk, Belarus.

In 1998, in the building of the Twelve Collegia, Saint Petersburg State University's Center for Contemporary Art held a retrospective exhibit drawn from Apraksina's body of work in parallel with her "March Solo" festival, organized in partnership with the Center for Cultural Studies at the university's department of philosophy. Her "brief segments" on creativity, ''Lessons for 'Orly'', were published in the annual journal of the university's St. Petersburg Philosophical Society in 2000. St. Petersburg State University. No. 4, 2000.

In 2008, Apraksina's ''California Psalms'', written in Big Sur,
was among the laureates of the international poetry competition held by the Russian Foreign Ministry in partnership with ''Literary Gazette''. introduction to ''I dream in Russian: Poems by Russians living abroad.'' Moscow: Roszarubezhtsentr, Moscow Union of Friendship Societies, "Literary Gazette" Publishing, 2007. She has continued to produce "Apraksin Blues" while based in California. Aug. 8, 2009. She is a member of the Prof. V.I. Startsev International Association of Historical Psychology.

In 2023, Apraksina received the Babel Prize for Literature from Mundus Artium Press.

References

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Russian women painters
Russian women poets
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21st-century Russian women artists
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