{"id":4946,"date":"2016-06-01T18:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2020-06-15T17:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:37:34","slug":"story-of-samovar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/story-of-samovar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of a Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

...or How I Became an Artist.<\/h3>\n
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\"Still Life with a Samovar\"<\/a> became a turning point for me, dividing my creative life into before and after.<\/p>\n

I have been drawing since childhood, almost from birth: my father is an artist, and our home was always full of brushes, paints, and pencils. At first, I scribbled in books, and when I turned six, I was enrolled in an art studio. Then came art school and admission to an art institute, but from time to time I was plagued by doubts about whether I had made the right choice. I even considered applying to medical school, but (thank God!) I was talked out of it.
\nAfter completing my first year, I still had no idea how I was going to live or what I wanted to do. Falling in love helped me. It was our teacher, of course; he knew nothing about it, but I wanted to stand out somehow, to make myself noticed. I began taking my studies more seriously and started painting and drawing more. And then, one fine day, this \"Still Life with a Samovar\" came into being. It came easily, in a single day. I absolutely loved the colours. The blue background, the pale-blue milk jug, and the mandarin\u2014orange and vivid. My teacher praised me highly. I was happy. And after that, something seemed to shift within me. I realised that I was capable of far more than I had imagined. Thoughts of changing direction receded.<\/p>\n

I became an artist.<\/p>\n

Artist of the Kvartira S Gallery\u00a0Anastasia Bunina<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Still Life with a Samovar” became a turning point for me, dividing my creative life into before and after. I have been drawing since childhood, almost from birth: my father is an artist, and our home was always full of brushes, paints, and pencils. At first, I scribbled in books, and when I turned six, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}