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Artist Creates 100 Paintings That You Will Probably Relate To If You Grew Up In Slavic Countries
Living in a certain place leaves a trace on you. The way you remember childhood, what makes you nostalgic, and sometimes even the way you create. Like in the case of Nastasya Chudakova. Nastasya paints beautiful and cozy pieces with fragments from her childhood and life in Kaluga, Russia.
Her pieces are full of nostalgic memories that those who grew up in Slavic or post-Soviet countries will probably relate to. Nastasya features children, grown-ups, and lots of animals in her pieces. The artist also tells stories and scenarios with her artwork and most times, the detailed paintings have hidden Easter eggs in them.
More info: Instagram | chudakova-art.ru
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Anna Repp 4 years ago
That's Plantago - Plantain is a banana and is a completely different species. Plantago leaf stops bleeding, plantain is good for eating!
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RoseTheMad 4 years ago
I'm not slavic and I mostly grew up in the UK, but this reminds me of putting a Dock Leaf on a nettle sting, something I learned as a kid the at was out in the woods a lot growing up.
Rae the lemon 4 years ago
I can’t relate, but I was from Russia. You’d imagine I had nothing to remember as I didn’t grow up there, but I will look through these. It might get something up, you know?
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Dale-Harriet Rogovich 4 years ago
Babushka won't be happy about the frock....but oh, she saved the kitty! All is forgiven.
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WildWoodsGirl65 1 year ago
The artist's Instagram account is above the top painting in orange type. Should be able to see her profile info without having an Instagram account.
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MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago (edited)
This painting is my dream.I just want this much from life.A house where I can live independently far far away from my family.
Desiree McKinnon 4 years ago
This just looks so peaceful. And the rain is probably giving her a nice cool breeze
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namjoonie_ k 4 years ago
Breathing in the steam from boiled potatoes, when you`re sick. Hated that :D
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
You didn't get a bowl of fresh water? Maybe with a menthol crystal in it? We actually had a "facial sauna" at one point, now I feel posh 🤦
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Rae the lemon 4 years ago
Who is actually from Russia or somewhere where life is portrayed as such in these photos? I would love to see your perspective on your life! :)
Dale-Harriet Rogovich 4 years ago
I always liked this - it really did make me feel better, and Babushka's latkes were soothing on the throat with a little jam.
Evgeniya Khon 4 years ago
My mom made me do this a lot when I was a kid. Did not seem to work and almost made me hate potatoes
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Kookamunga 4 years ago
Whoa.....I love pigs but I'd rather lick a Target shopping cart handle.
Miss-Un-Derstood 4 years ago
This is a meme about a guy wearing beer goggles & kissing a pig...
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WildWoodsGirl65 1 year ago
She's protecting the cat from the police/soldiers
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Dale-Harriet Rogovich 4 years ago
Oh yes! also explains the Russian ancestors moving to Minnesota.....
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Sofie 4 years ago
Maybe they couldn't afford a dentist to pull out a bad tooth
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Lynne Paquette 4 years ago
YIKES. My mother told me she did that when she had a loose tooth. She tried to convince me to do it as a kid and i was like; hell no!!
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Pikachu Lulu P.L. 4 years ago
"Mmmmm... Pancakes! Shh.. I'll just take one while no one's looking..."
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Naseer Malik 4 years ago
Reminds me of growing up in a tenement building in New York City, in the 1980's
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Stephanie IV 4 years ago
EverBody remembers what this feels like: to be buttoned into your winter coat because the buttons are to small for the grown up to be doing it from the opposite side!
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AspieGirl88 4 years ago (edited)
He’d probably be saying: “I’ll teach you whipper-snappers not to peep into people’s homes!!” 😂
Rachel Connot 4 years ago
I think they may have been peeping on the lady doing her laundry
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Premislaus de Colo 4 years ago
In Poland they had these silvery caps that you could make a hole in with your finger
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Teodor Negru 4 years ago (edited)
I remember the shelves and displays were far emptier than this, and the little that was, was rationed... This is what propaganda looked like, though (Applies to most eastern bloc countries before the fall of communism)
MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
Ration?Here in my country,it still works.
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WildWoodsGirl65 1 year ago
We can paint wishes too. But in St. Petersburg or Moscow there has been. Not every year is the same.
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AspieGirl88 4 years ago
If you focused on just the faces, you’d think this was a photograph! 😯
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AspieGirl88 4 years ago
I always love visiting aquariums. So calming just to watch them swim around... 🥰💖🐠
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Dale-Harriet Rogovich 4 years ago
Marvelous - where? oh...perhaps Azerbaijan, perhaps Arizona.....
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WildWoodsGirl65 1 year ago
Yes we call him Grandfather Frost in English but Snegurochka by her same name. 😁❤️
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Rae the lemon 4 years ago
Why did they downvote this? You gave a COMPLIMENT! It is a nice painting though.
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Mrs. Joe V 4 years ago
Looks like my cat forcefully being loved on and dragged around by my middle child.....
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Raye West 4 years ago
If you are a certain age, maybe 33 to 44, you will remember going to *Nana's house where she was old but not as old as her mother (you're great-grandmother) *MahMah that she was taking care of. There was always two sets: one older version of the electronics (phones, TV's, radios, kitchen appliances) for *MahMah and a newer one but still a generation back from your's for *Nana. If this painting also had a cell phone it'd represent said aged person's (33-44) children right now in 2021. Love this artist, so talented and relatable.
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AspieGirl88 4 years ago
If you’d told me at first glance that this was a photo, I’d believe it! 😯
Alejandra González Salinas 3 years ago
Is a photo!! the skin color in inbeileved. You are great Tasya
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AspieGirl88 4 years ago
Piano lessons ... at least now they’re a lot easier & not necessarily mandatory! 😅
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Dale-Harriet Rogovich 4 years ago
"He'll be all right, Vasili, you were wise to bring him to see his doctor."
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AspieGirl88 4 years ago
Uh oh ... hopefully the parents don’t believe in spanking, otherwise this child is probably gonna get it! 😅
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WildWoodsGirl65 1 year ago
Such memories for me in so many of these growing up across the world. It is important to remember things like this.
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WildWoodsGirl65 1 year ago
They had gardening clogs in Europe including places in Russia soon after rubber boots. In the early 80s a student was here with them from near St. Petersburg but they weren't Crocs, they were Finnish. People from all over the world live in St Petersburg & it was easier to get things during different times than in others. And the artist is not old, this is her own childhood & she's a young adult.
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AspieGirl88 4 years ago
Aww ... why are his ears flattened & tail curled between his legs, as though he’s scared? 🥺
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Inna Drobi 4 years ago
New years coming. In Russia the tree is put for new years eve, not for xmas
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Daria B 4 years ago
Technique, emotion, realism, beauty... these pictures have it all. Impressive. This list was a journey.
Shauna Hicken 4 years ago
Loved the painting style, and the subject matter. I would be delighted to hang them in my house!
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I love all the ones done presumably in the artist's kitchen, with the glow from the orange pendant light, and the autumnal colored curtain, with the table pushed up to the window. I feel like I've been there, for coffee and cake. #29 will keep me up tonight, wondering what they were doing to the cats =^..^=
Daria B 4 years ago
Technique, emotion, realism, beauty... these pictures have it all. Impressive. This list was a journey.
Shauna Hicken 4 years ago
Loved the painting style, and the subject matter. I would be delighted to hang them in my house!
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I love all the ones done presumably in the artist's kitchen, with the glow from the orange pendant light, and the autumnal colored curtain, with the table pushed up to the window. I feel like I've been there, for coffee and cake. #29 will keep me up tonight, wondering what they were doing to the cats =^..^=
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