Nina Andreevna Baranova is a folk artist. It is interesting that she did not learn this craft anywhere, and began to paint her cozy landscapes when she was 70 years old.
Baranova Nina Andreevna is an original artist. Interestingly, she is self-taught and started painting after 70 years. Her works are imbued with such warmth, love for people and their native land that one wants to contemplate them endlessly.
Biography and personal life
Baranova Nina Andreevna was born in the village of Bobyleva, in the Kurgan region, Kargopol district. This joyous event took place in 1924. Nina was born into a family of educated and respected people. Her mother was engaged in beekeeping and gardening, and her father was the headmaster of the school.
Nina Baranova received her secondary education and thought about choosing a future profession. She loved to draw since childhood, but her parents believed that her daughter needed to choose a more reliable "earthly" specialty, so they persuaded her to go to a pedagogical institute.
Nina Andreevna entered this higher educational institution, and after graduation she went to work. The youth of the future artist fell on a difficult time. The girl survived the years of devastation after the October Revolution, then the hardships of the Great Patriotic War. All this time she worked honestly, was engaged in social work.
After the end of the war in 1948, Nina Andreevna got married. Then she had three children - two daughters and a son. The girls inherited the genetics of their parents, when they grew up they became artists.
Career
After graduating from the Pedagogical Institute, N. A. Baranova went to work at a school where she taught literature and Russian. Here she worked for 10 years. But after marriage, the birth of the firstborn, Nina Andreevna moved to another job. She got a job in a kindergarten as a teacher.
Here there was found fertile ground for the manifestation of the talent of an original artist. She gladly decorated groups, painted colorful landscapes, created visual aids, thereby showing her creative abilities.
Nina Baranova has been doing needlework all her life. She herself made carpets, embroidered, but began to draw only when she was 70 years old.
She created amazing Ural landscapes that glorify the beauty of the forest and the surrounding nature. Also on her canvases you can see bright bouquets of flowers, colorful village houses, beautiful fruits in baskets.
Works of the artist
The artist's painting "Love" is dedicated to this wonderful feeling. The captured scene unfolds against the backdrop of beautiful Ural forests. A man carries a bright bouquet to his beloved, and she stands in a red dress that stands out perfectly against the background of dark green fir trees.
It can be seen that the couple in love is not very young. Even older characters in the artist's next work. But an elderly woman and a man of advanced years does not interfere at all with collecting the gifts of the forest, wandering through the picturesque meadow.
In the summer of 2015, a personal exhibition of Nina Andreevna took place in Lyalin Lane. At that time she was 91 years old, and an original artist lived with her son in Pervouralsk.
