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Dasha Delone

Dasha Delone belongs to The Third Avant-garde movement. As an artist
she is a complex phenomenon with a pretty long story behind – the story of
Painter, Poet, Designer, Publisher and Equestrian that come upon the stage
interchangeably to engender the extremely eventful life. The events in their
turn are reflected on canvas as flowers and dragons, bottles and Valkyries,
pirates and musicians.
In the beginning were Russian medieval booklore, manuscript miniatures and
restoration of old rural churches. At the same time Dasha Delone studied
the art and the science of graphic design and typography at Boris Trofimov’s
studio.
Oil painting, regarded then as the essential and indispensable element of artistic
education, Dasha Delone mastered at an exquisite private art studio – a sort of
a free academy bringing to mind the atmosphere of impressionists’ Paris.
Then there came to her life an avant-garde ceramist Irina Labutina, rock'n'roll,
hippie vagrancies, philosophy, mystics, poetry and music. Early in the 1990s
Dasha Delone dedicated herself to studying ceramics, enamels, chemistry, the
ways of obtaining pure colours.
Oil painting re-entered her life as a form of nonverbal poetry. Colours, paint,
canvases and brushes were much more amenable to the touch than the spangles
and gadgets around.