"Heavy Load Surprise," 1981. Ceramics

Here is the English translation of your text: --- Tatiana SAVVATEEVA was born on December 22, 1936, at the “Seymchan” state farm, Magadan Region. In 1957, she graduated from the Moscow Art and Industrial School named after M.I. Kalinin with honors. Her teachers were M.A. Shmakov and S.P. Evangulov. In 1958, she participated in the World Exhibition in Brussels. In 1964, she graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. Her teachers were A. Drevin, N. Tomsky, and M. Baburin. Since 1965, she has participated in Moscow, regional, republican, all-Union, Russian, and international exhibitions, including those in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and France. In 1966, she became a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (for the work “Fishermen,” wood, 1966). In 1967, she became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1987, she held a solo exhibition at the “Krutitsky Val” hall in Moscow. Since 1992, she has been a member of the sculpture section of the Moscow Union of Artists and of the Association of Moscow Sculptors. In 2002 and 2004, she received diplomas as a winner of the “Spring Salons” contest in Moscow. In 2004, she held a solo exhibition at the Moscow House of the Sculptor. In 2020, she donated her collection of sculptures to the city of Kimry, Tver Region. There is a permanent exhibition (museum) of Tatyana Savvateeva’s works at the District House of Folk Art. She is the author of monumental works installed in Siberia, near Ryazan, in Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Her works are held in: - The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - The State Darwin Museum, Moscow - The Union of Artists of the USSR - The Serpukhov Museum of History and Art, Moscow Region - The Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts, Sverdlovsk Region - The Tver Regional Picture Gallery - The District House of Folk Art, Kimry, Tver Region - Private collections in Russia and abroad About her work The most important aspect of Tatyana Savvateeva’s creativity is her zest for life. You could say that absolutely everything she sees touches her soul, which is why her range of subjects is so wide and her plastic (artistic) means are so varied. Moreover, in each case she strives to vividly reflect the character of the subject, its uniqueness. She understands perfectly that each case requires finding its own expressive language, always different from her previous discoveries, and thus she is constantly in search, attentively peering into the surrounding world. In it, she sees an endless multitude of sources for creativity. Among the multitude of sculptural techniques she has mastered, Tatyana Savvateeva feels the most confident and subtle in the “modelled” form, finding possibilities in it to express both quick observation and prolonged study of nature, as well as her own authorial intonation and tempo-rhythms of work: sharp cuts with a modeling tool, work with the palm, with fingers. ---