Vera Nazina
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Vera Ivanovna Nazina - soviet
Soviet Union
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 Russian
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 painter, Graphic artist, living and working in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
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 (before 1992 - Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded by one art historian as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting
Leningrad School of Painting
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Biography

Vera Ivanovna Nazina was born April 26, 1931, in Leningrad
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, USSR. In 1945-1946 she engaged in the art studio of the House of Young Pioneers and Schoolchildren of Dzerzhinsky district of Leningrad.

In 1947, Vera Nazina entered the сeramics department of the School of Art and Industry in Leningrad
Leningrad
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. In 1950, Vera Nazina transferred at the faculty of monumental and decorative painting, she studied of Alexander Kazantsev, Ivan Stepashkin, Piotr Buchkin
Piotr Buchkin
Piotr Dmitrievich Buchkin – Soviet, Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the founder and ...

, Gleb Savinov
Gleb Savinov
Gleb Alexandrovich Savinov - Soviet, Russian painter, Art teacher, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting.- Biography :Gleb...

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In 1955, Vera Nazina graduated from Higher School of Art and Industry named after Vera Mukhina in Alexander Kazantsev workshop. Her graduation work was genre painting named "Children at harvest".

Vera Nazina has participated in Art Exhibitions Since 1958. She paint portraits, genre paintings, home interiors, landscapes, still life, sketches from the life. Vera Nazina mostly works in the technique of tempera painting and watercolors. Her personal exhibitions were in Leningrad
Leningrad
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 (1984), and in 1985 in towns of Slantsy
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 and Ivangorod
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, both in Leningrad Province
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The leading theme of Vera Nazina creativity is baby images, people and way of life of the northern Russian countryside. Her paintings are distinguished decorative and dominance favorite red and pink tones, penetrating and unifying color works.

In search of plots and original materials for their work, Vera Nazina often traveled to Karelia and the Arkhangelsk region, she visited Kargopol, Shozhma, Nyandoma, Kholmogory, worked in Staraya Ladoga, and on the Academicheskaya Dacha.

Vera Nazina is a member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg was established on August 2, 1932, as creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, was called "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". Since 1959 was called as Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation...

 (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1960.

Paintings by Vera Ivanovna Nazina reside in State Russian Museum
Russian Museum
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, in Art museums and private collections of Russia, France, Germane, Finland, USA, England, and in other countries.

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