"The Nutcracker and Other New Year's Stories" is a traditional exhibition that the Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts opens before the New Year. This time, Lisa Anisimova, a student of the University of Industrial Technology and Design, an artist, is taking part in the exhibition. Lisa presents a total of 19 paintings from her project "Commotion in the Puppet Theater" in Kaliningrad. The artist will donate all the exhibited works to the museum.


Lisa Anisimova is known for her unusual technique, with which she creates "tableaux vivants" for her project "Commotion in the Puppet Theater". Her characters are real people whose bodies are covered with makeup and body art paint. Lisa creates costumes and decorations for her characters, which serve as a background. As a result of the performance, photographs are obtained. The girl prints them on canvases, refines them with the help of familiar painting techniques and varnishes them.


In addition to the paintings, the Kaliningrad museum also hosted a performance — fantasy characters in incredible outfits "descended" from the canvases of the artist.
"I thought about this story for a long time, repainted, cut the costumes, changed, sewed on a new one, then painted again. And there were a lot of sketches. When I created this installation, I tried to show what the New Year means to me and make sure that other people, looking at my paintings, could also feel it,".
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All 19 of the presented paintings "Commotion in the Puppet Theater" will be donated to the museum. Prior to that, the project was presented at the Rauhfus Children's Urban Multidisciplinary Clinical Center for High Medical Technologies in St. Petersburg and in children's medical institutions in Lugansk.
The artist's paintings are donated to the Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts for a reason. Now every next year they will please someone new.
"These works will appear next year in art schools, orphanages, nursing homes, cardiology centers, and cancer centers. And we will be pleased that they continue to work, and the museum will have a wonderful socio-cultural project aimed at supporting family, creativity, and love,".
says Ekaterina Druzhinina, head of the Art of Graphics Foundation
Lisa Anisimova is only 18 years old, and she is already known throughout Russia, the USA, Europe and even Asia. The girl was born in Los Angeles and loved to paint from early childhood, using her father's garage as a workshop. Lisa posted the first "live pictures" on social networks, so she was noticed by journalists of a major international television network. After the story on television, the talented young artist became known all over the world. Now her works travel across continents.
