The exhibition of the young Naberezhnye Chelny artist Daria Smolina is dedicated to International Children's Day. The exposition includes painting, printmaking, and watercolor. The "Children" and "Children's Fantasies" series in linocut, and the "Angels" series in woodcut reveal the theme of motherhood and childhood. The exhibition is complemented by oil paintings featuring children's images. Her work highlights the features that characterize children's worldview, a child's thinking, their spiritual life, and emotional sphere: children's mythologism; play as the main form of children's activity; the unusually wide and rich world of children's fantasy; the integrity of a child's soul, its naivety and spontaneity, the absence of any duality or artificiality in a child, spiritual and mental health; freedom from stereotypes, norms, and conventions, freedom of expression of feelings, spiritual freedom; creative energy. A series of watercolor works "Unexplored Land" is distinguished by the author's interpretation of subtle observations of nature.
Daria Tarasovna Smolina was born in 1987 and graduated from the M. Akmulla Bashkir State Pedagogical University. She has been a member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Tatarstan since 2020. She lives and works in Naberezhnye Chelny.
