A person, who is able to paint in any manner both easily and unconstrainedly has already become an Artist, but how is it difficult to achieve the desirable freedom or at least to approach to it? Sometimes it takes years, sometimes it takes the whole life.

… In Tara's pictures one can easily feel the mutinous nature of her soul and even her heartbeat. Everything depicted by her is both beautiful and harmonious. The nude models are portrayed in the expressive and bold manner.

The simplicity of lines as well as their intermittence gives a special vividness and dynamics to the image. In Tara's vision, Art is always a fantasy (although it has a real, vital basement). That's why the unshaded drawing appeals to the associative thinking and the linear rhythm includes the special opportunities of transition the harmony's qualities. The beauty of the nude body's plasticity, the wide range of different states and moods of the model — all these gives the special attractiveness to the images. Fantasy can?t exist without Improvising.

«Improvisation is in my element» — Tara likes to repeat.

It refers equally to her graphical and painted pieces of art.

… Tara's artistic images are distinguished by depth, strength, generalization, approaching to the symbolic understanding of events. The types of her canvases bring that originality, allowing estimating Tara's artistic language as a new word in the modern painting.

…Tara is an Artist of disputed plan. She tries to convey the dispute firstly in life. However dispute can be understood even as the accentuating of the form of expression of the bursting, tense situation having place in reality. Tara perceives this process as consisting of two indissolubly united parts. The main point for her is in discovering the nature of existing disputed situations and searching for their original embodiment. Being a seeking person she fills the conflict to the structure of the painting which makes it possible to highlight the truth of the artistic image. This is the origin of all new, nontrivial artistic decisions.

… In Tara's art the role of underlying theme, absorbing the plot for sake of capacious figurative notions, is especially strong. The plot transforms to the cause for conveying of the hidden sense. In the picture «The trance of the Queen» the implication of the situation is neither in actions nor in movement. People's ties evolve from the depths of relationships and are being found in the whole structure of the canvas. The characters are sunk into themselves and even autonomous; each of them owns his personal psychological world frozen at the exact minute and giving by all these not fleeting but constant nature to the collision. Internal alienation. Sharp red colour is out of tune with the violet hues of different type helping to underline the conflict nature of the situation. Tara is a real artist of psychological painting.

…The eagerness for laconic brevity and expression is highly representative for the artist. Using grotesque and symbolism Tara'stages life. Her characters are similar to the theatre of masks by Bertold Breht with exaggeration, grotesque acuteness and nude emotionality. The most part of her models is people of creative professions. The portraits take a special place in Tara's art. The ethical ideal of a human being. The portrait images created by the artist are the fragile tuning fork of spiritual current, seismographs §  the deep moral hesitation. She tries to understand that precious element in the human being's personality giving it uniqueness and originality, all these hidden, rare, and secret things that are so difficult to find under ordinary conditions.

The portraits of Edward, Alex and Blue Angel and portraits of some nude models can be mentioned as undoubtedly successful. All these canvas were painted to the quick. They are the result of thinking about eternal although constantly changing beauty of the world. The decorative intensity of colours harmonization skillfully. The special sense of proportion is felt.

… In the portrait «Aleksey, morning» as well as in the other works of this painter, the artist avoids the explicit narration. This is a sort of a mood-portrait where the author's point of view to the theme is expressed extremely definite. This is the admiration by purity, youth and worship of it. But there is no space for idealization. The man's images radiate heat, temper and shy craftiness. These vital characteristic tunes merge into the generalized concept of youth.

… Tara's works express tireless efforts to find her own, individual vision of beauty in Art. Melodiousness of the nude body plasticity and spirituality, some mystery and half-word in the portraits denote the nature of the painter's creative searches.

…Romantic perception of the world is typical for Tara as if it had been predetermined before.

…A special romantic animation and romantic glow with spiritual beauty of person imprinted to the portrait — all these are typical for the most part of works belonging to the genre. Primary face and its psychological expressiveness draw view's attention in the portraits. The typical traits of «The young man in a black hat» portrait are absorption, despair, mental unbalance and spiritual fragileness of the model.

The nervous delicacy and melancholy are conveyed in the gliding lines and in the tired-blue gamma.

The search for beauty reflected precisely in the composition of the portrait «The youth on the city background» can be even felt. Not only the silhouette itself and the figure's outline but colour as well as its intensity, harmony, the play of light and shadows — all elements work actively. Each of them owns its own important meaning, which is a part of the general buoyant theme of the Youth. One can feel firstly the dedication of the model in the another portrait «Twiggy». Unsteady, oversetting pose as if demonstrating submergence of an «other-wordly» person to work, sweeping lines, subtle gamma of light blue, lilac, greenish-white colours brings delicacy and nervousness to the image.

«Not dances are important but their impulse to indefinite core», — says Tara. The ability of the artist to penetrate to this indefinite and discover something astonishing even her in it is because of the power of her talent.

…From canvas to canvas the tonality layer is changing! Attractive and cute feminity is changing with no less captive images although strict and proud. The plastique is getting more and more difficult. The quantity of details decreases. The bulk volume enlarges itself and its abrupt colour contrasts give new impulses in image perception.

In other works chamber-like, romantic line is strongly expressed. The artist never flatters her models but at the same she never underlines some ugly traits in models appearance on purpose. Creating the portrait she always try to determine something very special, a trait being especially important for revealing the depth of the character. That brings a touch of authenticity to the portraits. … The image of Edward is one of the most strong from the point of view of inner emotions concentration. The sharp line, violent and simultaneously, if it's possible to say, rough line denotes the character of the face and the head itself. There isn't that sweet, flow manner in this line that is typical for many youth images. The portrait is laconic and acquires special severity precisely because of it. The most striking point in the portrait is eyes, their expression.

The burden of thinking, demand and demonism — all these states are concentrated into these eyes.

…Tara's art is moral. And not because of the fact that she advocates a copy-book truth — actually edification itself is absolutely absent in her canvases. But created images surprise by deep spirituality and shrilling emotionality.

…We can see the triumphant melody of love in the picture «The Two». One can feel intimacy of the couple on the emotional level. Palette of the environment unites the figures. Space is relative. Because of the relative environment of the situation having lost the define «setting» brought a sort of symbolism to the scene. This is the way Tara's gift of mythology, her ability to transform exact and private to the general, ability to transform immediate context to the constant and stable action, event.

Thirst for searching her expressive meanings, manners filled with deep sense constantly provokes the artist to self-development. She chooses such untypical situation, develops the theme in a sudden manner and the result seems both bold and non-trivial. In her Art Tara breaks the stereotype of the artistic language and even broader — the standard flow of imaginary consciousness.

… The problems of the pictures are addresses only to a person, that's why any of the works is filled with humanity. The paintings of the artist interconnect the content and idea. Tara uses colour skillfully, sometimes it sparkles as a bright flame and then it plunges the image into the sweet sorrow. Her works are distinguished by fineness of lines and skillfully performed, emotionally tensed movements of the colours. Tara gets involved into the clashes of life underlining their dialectic background and touches both personal and social problems such as family, relationships between sexes etc. She studies the diversity of ties connecting a person with this world and society. She has created the special imaginary world. The images of people, whose life, as it's possible to say, was firstly presented by Tara to the public attention, are looking at us. That's why the portraits images of the artist aren`t «types» in the banal sense of this word, but lofty heroes, compared to mysterious land discovered by Tara and gifted to the mankind. Tara has taken upon herself a noble task to depict the beauty of man's love to man.

Zaitsev Vyacheslav
21 June 2006
Saint-Petersburg