Raina Rachevawas born on Dec. 16, 1939 in Banya - Blagoevgrad district. She
graduated from the Art Academy "Nikolai Pavlovich" in the class of
professor Georgi Bogdanov in 1964.
Raina Racheva works in the filed of art of painting. She has impressive
achievements in landscapes, portraits and still-life. A great part of
her artistic experience is connected with children. She has founded a
school of painting and a mosaic school in the Municipality of Bourgas.
Racheva's works are prossessions of many private and public collections
in Bulgaria, Germany, USA, England, Japan, Holland, Russia, Turkey,
Greece and Ireland.
Raina Racheva has had 16 individual exhibitions and has taken part in a
number of joint exhibitions in Bulgaria and Germany, Russia, Ukraine,
Poland, Japan, Check Republic.
She lives and works in Bourgas.
Racheva's landscapes are bright, spatial and
impressionistic interpretations the sea and the atmosphere of the
seaside town. The vibrations of the light and air, the reflections of
the movement, the quick but strong impressions have given birth to her
best works. These are paintings of the atmosphere, of the sea haze and
a mood, which the artist attains through delicate colours. Racheva's
impressionistic creations live with the silent nostalgia for a world
free of contrasts, dramatism and anxiety. They create a world of
quietness and harmony. The precise rhythm of the paintbrush, the easy
lay of the paint, the cautious touch of the detail evoke the sensation
of tenderness as well as the power, mastered emotion and freedom.
Chromatic frugality is combined with lightness of form in Racheva's
portraits. Nobody else draws a portrait today the way she does - with
responsibility and admiration for the person she draws and their own
uniqueness. There is something renaissance and grand in the portraits.
In contrast to her landscapes they show greater specificity and
realism. This comes from the great desire of the artist to get closer
to the real nature of her image. Everything is equally important for
her - the face, the posture, the background, the accessories. That's
why each of her portraits enlivens the space around it and becomes a
sign of its own time. All the portraits combine the internal beauty
with the decorative external. This feature makes them contemporary as
well as classical.
Racheva draws flowers with extreme love. Dried or fresh they become
original ikebanas on the canvas. Her flowers make us love the world
around. The artist shows that there is nothing ugly around us as long
as we look through the sensitive eye of the painter, who brings the sun
and light onto the most tiny and insignificant things, turning them
into aesthetically beautiful and significant objects.
The synthesis of thought, feeling and artistic form in Racheva's works
is a result not only of a talent, but of a professional craftsmanship
as well. And this is achieved by a lot of a experience, Racheva
possesses the sense of lightness, style and space and the mastery to
create her unique artistic world. The great productivity of the artist
in the field of landscape, portrait and still-life convinces us that
she is one of those talented Bulgarian artists for whom art is an
aesthetical nacessity, a need and a way to exist. Her artistic mastery
is a talent but it is a duty at the same time - a duty to maintain this
talent till the end.
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