The youngest artist in the world Aelita Andre: biography, work and interesting facts

Nine years ago a girl with a unique talent was born. Her name is Aelita Andre. The youngest artist in the world has already sold paintings worth more than one million dollars.

short biography

A talented girl from Australia. Her family lives in the city of Melbourne. Birthday of the little artist in the winter - January 9. Next year she turns 10 years old.

Parents of Aelita André also deal with art. Her father is a well-known Australian artist Michael Andre, and his mother, Nika Kalashnikova, is working on creating art photographs. The mother of a gifted girl comes from Russia.

Hobbies and passions

If you do not consider the special talent, then Aelita Andre is quite an ordinary girl. She learned two languages English and Russian (prefers to speak at the latter). The young artist likes chocolate the most.

Also, nine-year-old Aelita is fond of playing the piano and attending gymnastics. She likes to make crafts, which she often brings to a kindergarten. The artist enjoys watching TV with pleasure. Like all children of her age, she loves broadcasts about animals and cartoons. She is especially interested in video about dinosaurs. The girl is fond of astronomy, often watching the transfer of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".

The discovery of talent

Drawing is the hobby of the whole Andre family. Little Aelita from the earliest childhood observed the creative process of the parents. She saw how adults paint on large canvases right on the floor. One day, Michael Andre, working on another picture, left the sheet of paper unattended for a while. When he returned to the canvas, he saw that the nine-month-old crumbled himself to the colors and smeared them with his hands. Aelita André did this with such enthusiasm and passion that the surprised father allowed his daughter to continue drawing.

Since then, the girl has always worked with her parents, who gave her individual sheets of paper for this.

Rapid development of the career of the artist

In 2009, when the baby was 2 years old, Mom took pictures of Aelita Andre and showed them to her friend Mark Jamison - the director of the Brunsik gallery. Nika Kalashnikova did not tell the art critic who is the author of the works in order to avoid bias. Mark Jamison appreciated several paintings and exhibited them at a group exhibition in Melbourne. When the audience learned how old the artist was, everyone was shocked. Some have blamed parents for allegedly using their daughter for profit. But Nick and Michael never forced the baby to draw, it's completely her initiative.

Literally a few months later the artist Aelita Andre became famous in China. Her paintings were exhibited at a group exhibition in Hong Kong. The masterpieces of the Australian girl made a splash in the world of art. One of her paintings sold for 24 thousand dollars.

Personal exhibitions

Five years ago the whole world learned about a young talent named Aelita Andre. The artist's works were exhibited in the gallery Agora Gallery in the US. Personal Opening Day was held in the summer of 2011 in New York, it lasted as much as 22 days. The exhibition was organized at the expense of the personal funds of the author.

In the exposition there were more than twenty paintings, nine of which were sold immediately for an amount exceeding 30 thousand dollars. The cost of canvases ranged from $ 10,000. After such success, the girl was called "little Picasso", "phenomenon", "child prodigy". The exhibition was called The Prodigy of Color.

Already three months later, Aelita's paintings went to Italy. In the city of Tuscany in September 2011 the second individual exhibition of the young artist was opened. Most of the paintings sold have been replenished by a number of private collectors.

Recognition by world art historians

Michael Andre and Nika Kalashnikova strongly support the daughter. Parents have provided the young artist with everything necessary. They equipped for her a modern workshop, bought a lot of different colors and sparkles.

The artist Aelita Andre works in the style of expressive abstract art. Her paintings have received worldwide recognition. Known critics and experts in the field of art appreciated the paintings of the girl highly artistic. In their opinion, in the masterpieces of Aelita, a special role is played by movement and color, composition and liveliness.

A young talented artist in her own way is tuned to work. She comes up with a story, which then embodies on canvas. In her paintings the girl uses not only acrylic paints, but also other materials, for example, bark of trees or branches, figurines of dinosaurs or balls.

A small Australian artist herself determines the place and time for creativity. Sometimes she has a desire to paint even at night. In the process of creative acceleration, Aelita Andre (whose paintings are recognized as highly artistic) can be distracted from work for several hours. But after a while the girl always returns to the canvas to finish her next masterpiece.

Some art historians have repeatedly expressed doubts about the full authorship of the artist's paintings, they are already painfully good. In their opinion, one of the parents of the baby could "put his hand" on the masterpieces. But Nick and Michael argue that their daughter is simply obsessed with painting and they do not interfere with her creation process.

Pictures of the youngest artist in St. Petersburg

This year, September 2, in Russia, Aelita Andre's solo exhibition "Music of Infinity" was opened. The work of the Australian artist-phenomenon was arranged in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in the cultural capital of the Russian Federation - in St. Petersburg. The exhibition presents more than fifty paintings by Aelita, collected for all her years of creativity. Also visitors of the museum saw photographic works, sculptures, personal belongings and pencil sketches of the artist.

The exhibition also includes sound pictures by Aelita Andre. Nine-year-old girl independently and unconsciously created a new movement in the art world "magical expressionism." She connected the painting and the sound.

According to the plan of the organizers, "Music of Infinity" was supposed to last a month. But the work of the youngest artist of the planet was so appealing to Russian viewers that the exhibition was extended for another ten days.

Pictures painted by young Aelita

The Australian girl painted many canvases in her eight years of creative work. She presented such pictures as "Dinosaur Island", "Cosmic Ocean", "String City", "Fey Island", "Peacock in Cosmos", "Kangaroo", "Southern Cross".

According to Aelita Andre herself, she will paint for the rest of her life. Painting she needs, like air and water. In the plans of the girl-phenomenon to present the world more than one masterpiece. Let's wish her good luck and inspiration!