Blog https://ln.golden-time.uk.com ru About what you love and simple steps to international recognition https://ln.golden-time.uk.com/tpost/ru80h0hm91-about-what-you-love-and-simple-steps-to https://ln.golden-time.uk.com/tpost/ru80h0hm91-about-what-you-love-and-simple-steps-to?amp=true Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:33:00 +0300 After serving over 25 years in the army, Natalia discovered a talent for painting. Now she will have a solo exhibition in Italy.

About what you love and simple steps to international recognition

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How can you achieve international recognition in just 3 years, what is the advantage of participating in online competitions and how do quarantine restrictions affect your creative work?
The story of Vinnitsa artist Natalia Zhizhko is inspiring and motivating, because the artist managed to achieve success and recognition at the international level in just 3 years. How did she manage to achieve this result?

Many of us often criticize ourselves and feel insecure about our abilities, thus making a big mistake, because without an objective assessment from the outside, sometimes we miss important events and opportunities, which are points of growth.

Natalia started painting in September 2017. The artist had no academic experience, at that time, was the experience of art school.
Fate was such that instead of the Kiev Institute of Light Industry, due to the illness of her father, she was forced to stay at home and entered the Vinnitsa Polytechnic Institute. After graduation, Natalia went to serve in the army. She worked in the military unit for over 25 years. During this period of her life, she did not touch paints and brushes. But the love of fine art was always present in the artist, she wanted to decorate her space with paintings.


What was the impetus for taking action?


The starting point for the development of my talent was a seemingly ordinary occasion. A coworker brought an embroidery piece that depicted a Spanish woman with a bouquet of flowers. Natalia wanted to transfer this image to canvas. From that painting, she discovered her talent.

Getting feedback was very important to the artist in the initial stage of her art. Natalia looked for every opportunity where she could show her work and receive criticism. This included receiving rejections, works she liked but didn't fit. One of the first acknowledgements of her creative work Vinnitsa woman received at the international competition Golden Time, in which she participated for several seasons in a row and was the winner of four Grand Prix of the festival. Natalia found out about the competition by accident through the ads and decided to show her work there, but she did not expect any results. How she was surprised when one of the members of the international jury Marina Spencer O'Neil, who is the president of UNESCO in Italy, wanted to hang her works on her wall. Natalia says that participating in the contest made her realize that she was going in the right direction. Nice atmosphere, support and constructive criticism from professionals of international level made it possible to improve and grow.


What's your biggest achievement and   failure?


One of the most important achievements for Natalia considers getting feedback from Igor Sakharov, on whose lessons she began her creative journey. It was the painting "Sail" that the artist appreciated.

There were no failures, as such. Because Natalia is convinced that any situation, even if it seems negative, is a valuable experience for further development.
To keep your inspiration and resource important, just give yourself time to rest and spend it with your loved ones, shared Natalia's main secret. One of the key points on the way to success is not to allow yourself to burn out emotionally.



Monetizing creativity and   participation in   contests


To date, Natalia Zhizhko has more than 9 solo exhibitions and experience of participation in international competitions (London, Turkey, Germany). The artist notes that the main value of participation in competitions is to be able to set a goal, to see the level of other participants and to assert oneself.

Competitions are one of the important points of development of creativity, as they help to look at oneself and one's work from the outside. The artist firmly believes that if you set yourself a goal only to sell paintings, it will not get you far. Create a picture should be with love, to develop themselves with love and above all, to invest resources in their own development, in this case, the money can come just a nice bonus. As one of the main criteria for the realization of their paintings, is to spread their creativity as in the Internet portals, and in-person exhibitions, which allows you to expand the audience of fans of the talent. As in the pursuit of improving their creativity and postponing the demonstration of their talent to others, you can remain unnoticed. Therefore, the artist is convinced that only by acting and showing her paintings everywhere can you achieve success in the shortest possible time.


How do quarantine restrictions affect   creativity?


Natalia notes, first of all, that time is freed up to devote to creativity. Many people feel depressed and sad because of the restrictions. But these seemingly unfavorable conditions can be used to their advantage and to find inspiration in them, to create more vivid pictures and add color to their lives.

Indeed, in connection with the pandemic, many have broken plans, including artists. Exhibitions, especially overseas ones, have been postponed indefinitely. So from the exact goals that can be set and implemented now are participation in online contests and online exhibitions. Natalia's work is participating in an online exhibition of the Japanese National Watercolor University. Also in the near future you can see the artist's paintings in Kiev at the gallery "Globus" and in the artist's house.

One of Natalia's important goals, at this stage, is to study at Vinnitsa Pedagogical University in the Department of Fine Arts. As the artist feels that in the near future she will be ready to share her experience and teach.

Natalia's success story motivates her to take action in her development, if she had given up after the first refusal, if she had sat back and thought that she was not yet ready to show her work to others, she would still be at the stage where she started. Action is what brought Natalia to the result she has now, because the artist firmly believes that it is important to take advantage of all the opportunities that destiny offers!

]]> Honored Artist of Uzbekistan on what steps are important to take to move to the big stage. https://ln.golden-time.uk.com/tpost/mua75voey1-honored-artist-of-uzbekistan-on-what-ste https://ln.golden-time.uk.com/tpost/mua75voey1-honored-artist-of-uzbekistan-on-what-ste?amp=true Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:38:00 +0300 As banal as it may sound, the most important thing in competitions is not to win, but to participate. After all, after participating in each festival a person grows, develops and changes, both professional and psychological.

Honored Artist of Uzbekistan on what steps are important to take to move to the big stage.

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Milena Madmusaeva - Honored Artist of Uzbekistan, a jury member of the international Golden Time Talent competition, and in the past our participant and winner of many international competitions shared with the editors of our blog what steps are important to take in order to move up to the big stage.

First of all, I would like to introduce you closer to this talented artist.

Milena was born on 26.09.1988 in Navai, Uzbekistan.
From an early age she was interested in music. That's why the parents of the young artist took her to a music school, piano class. After completing the 9th grade, the future People's Artist enters the Fergana College of Arts in the Department of Academic Singing. In 2007 she entered Tashkent State Conservatory. Since that period, Milena began an active career, participating in many competitions and festivals, where she worthily represented her country abroad, for example in France, Spain and Italy.
After graduating from the Conservatory, in 2011, Milena goes to work in the Estrada Association "Uzbeknavo". During this period, she takes part in state concerts dedicated to the Independence Day of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Constitution, the National Holiday Navruz. Since 2015 Milena starts her way as a pop singer. She created one of her first works together with the poet and composer Yakzon called "Yig'lab kulib", for which a video clip was shot.
After that, she released her second composition titled "Voz kecholmayman", the words and music of which belong to the well-known Nargiz.

Your voice is your instrument


Milena Madmusaeva from her early childhood dreamed of becoming a famous singer, listening to Sarah Brightman, Maria Callas and Monserrat Caballe, the young artist was inspired to start her career.
The singer believes that if a person wants something very much, there are no restrictions in front of him. To realize your potential is important primarily the desire and not being afraid of work. Your voice is first of all a living instrument. You must not forget about it and it is important to observe the harmony of rest and work in order to preserve your talent.

If a person decides to participate in the contest - he is already a winner!


Milena considers participation in competitions to be one of the main ways to promote her talent. As banal as it may sound, the most important thing in competitions is not winning, but participation itself, because after participating in each festival a person grows, feels stimulated to develop and changes, first of all, psychologically.

If a vocalist has already decided to participate and show his talent in a contest - it speaks volumes.

It's easy to sit at home and criticize yourself and those around you! But it takes courage to develop, to go out and show yourself to an audience. Milena is convinced that if a person decides to participate in the contest, he or she is already a winner! An important criterion in promoting oneself is to demonstrate one's talent to the public, because no one knows exactly where a vocalist can be noticed.
Milena gave examples of her colleagues Najmiddin Mavlyanov (soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, the Royal Covent Garden Theater, etc.) and Barno Ismatullayev (soloist of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko), who can boast not only victories in competitions, but also failures. It was the "failures" that brought them tickets to the big stage, because through participation in competitions they were noticed and winning in this case was not so important anymore.

Why did you choose to participate in the GOLDEN TIME TALENT?


Milena Madmusayeva also shared her impressions of her participation in the Golden Time international competition. The singer deservedly received Gran Prix
of the competition and subsequently became an honorary member of the jury. Milena found out about the competition on the recommendation of her father. Due to quarantine restrictions, stages in person were not available and the choice fell on remote online competitions. After reading the reviews in detail, the vocalist decided to participate. The singer shared with the editorial staff what pluses could be derived from the lockdown - first of all, quarantine gave valuable time to expand her repertoire, as the schedule became free, and there was a great opportunity to learn new arias.

Milena's plans now include the presentation of a new album. At the moment she has signed a contract in America and a new music video has been released.

The whole team of the Golden Time international competition is fans of Milena Madmusaeva, we wish her success, prosperity and we are looking forward to her assessments and comments from the singer!


We thank Milena for her trust and are happy to have her as a member of the jury.

]]> Dmitry Shturm is a prominent representative of contemporary art https://ln.golden-time.uk.com/tpost/yttiymbb01-dmitry-shturm-is-a-prominent-representat https://ln.golden-time.uk.com/tpost/yttiymbb01-dmitry-shturm-is-a-prominent-representat?amp=true Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:17:00 +0300 Recently, our press center managed to communicate with a great artist in the style of digital art, a participant in our competition, who was later invited to be a member of the jury - Dmitry Shturm.

Dmitry Shturm is a prominent representative of contemporary art

This is not the first time we have interviewed our participants and the jury. Recently, our press center managed to communicate with a great artist in the style of digital art, a participant in our competition, who was later invited to be a member of the jury - Dmitry Shturm.


Dmitry, please tell us a little about yourself. What do you do? I am sure our participants would be interested to know better about you.


Dmitry: I basically have two types of activities, this is what I do for a living.
By profession, I am a leading web designer who works for a company with government orders. In simple terms - we make sites and services for the state.
Technically, I am an IT specialist, my education is pedagogical. That is, I would have to be a computer science teacher, but I chose web design.
- Didn't it work out with teaching?
Dmitry: everything turned out the way it should have been. Because my dream was to create some things with which a very large number of audiences and users would interact. In fact, this is the whole country, because the state site is a huge traffic, one way or another people go there and it is millions in a month.
Before that, I was engaged in entrepreneurship. We have created websites for business. But observing that after implementation they may not pay off, the customer does not develop them, goes in a different direction.
It was not so interesting, because we build a ship - we put it on the water, transferring the board, and it sinks. # Nbsp; And I wanted such contracts that are calculated for years when the state supports it very well. Plus - this is precisely such an ideological aspect - it is a contribution to the life of other people, that my life does not pass without a trace, in some way I serve other people. This was important to me.                  
I myself am from the Urals, and I moved to Moscow with this very purpose to live and work, to develop our society, to help my country in this way.

- Let's talk about your work. In what areas of art are you developing?


Dmitry: I have a lot of creative directions.   I have not touched only, probably, the sculpture now, everything else is there anyway. This is a huge project with paintings, there is a huge part of isoteric paintings, periodical exhibitions. I create some things with my hands, these are all sorts of figurines, decorations. I just learned to airbrush the last year.    
Recently I have been moving away from static, from pictures to the format of live performances. That is, what does it mean? I began to write poetry, they began to invite me to read. Over time, this action, literally in 4-5 months, developed into such a very theatrical format. A creative image was born there, a concept, a mood was born. # Nbsp; When I am invited to read in different institutions, usually these are creative evenings. There, in bars, restaurants, from time to time I see the audience, the response in the faces of the viewer - this is all quite interesting. But this format is different from pictures, it is very provocative in nature.
I am a person who loves to shock, to draw attention to myself. Right now we are talking to you, I am quite calm, adequate, reasonable, but on the stage everything goes, on the contrary, it is such a spring that is compressed in real life.
- An emotional outburst?
Dmitry: Yes. That is, it unclenches, there with tenfold strength, this is a show of a bad toastmaster.
I can pull people onto the stage. Collect something there, give them something, the viewer is involved in the game. The beginning was also so one-sided, a monologue of reading poems all the same provocative. And now many people know that if I go out, now there will be some kind of "minced meat", there will be something interesting and definitely something will be remembered.
So, under this action, a creative image is born and now it is turning into a video format, now we are starting to shoot all this. Now I am creating a project called "Theater Life". There are invited poetesses who read my poems and unfolds me into some kind of small theatrical action. So that a person does not just read in front of the camera, but interacts somehow and ... I like it, but sometimes it happens very harshly with the topic that rises there, this is a provocation, there is no other way. This is what I am doing in a nutshell.

- When looking at your Instagram, we saw some pretty impressive posts. Tell us more about this project, what inspired you to create it?


Dmitry: Yes. This project has actually already been completed, it was called "Burgamitrix".
These are one hundred works of portraits of one hundred real people, and out of these hundred works, one person wanted to be in a mask. Therefore, if you look at everything, there is one work where a person wished to be in a mask and did not take pictures. I would call it just a warm-up. At some point, I wanted to warm up and work on volume. Of course, one hundred portraits would have been technically impossible to draw, taking into account the real workload. Therefore, they use digital art computer technologies, in which, in principle, I work the overwhelming majority of the time, that is, it is part of computer programs.
Since I am a web designer myself, a programmer by education, I am primarily interested in using the latest technologies in contemporary art, because before that I did projects with phantom reality.
When the picture hangs on the wall, we point the phone and in the phone it starts to come to life through a certain application, that is, there is movement, the girl throws up her hands. I try to integrate all this with both conventional programs and creative neural networks.

- An excellent project, I am sure it impressed many! It is very interesting, you have quite different directions. What do you consider to be an achievement in your work? It is interesting to know your success story.


Dmitry: there were a lot of them. Most of all, of course, I like exhibitions if we are talking about paintings. When I get to the gallery for an exhibition, for me it is a small medal, I contributed something.
The main task, no matter how pathetic it may sound, is to enter the centuries. Maybe not on a global scale to become a super-famous artist, but nevertheless make sure that history does not throw me off its walls too quickly. Well, this is a story about a long job. Here, unfortunately, this has been accumulated over the years, maybe even decades, through fruitful and systematic work.
But most of all I enjoy exhibitions when it comes to paintings. Well, objectively, I can say that I am not particularly interested in sales in this direction, the task is different. As soon as the sale begins, as soon as all this is put on some commercial track, the very ideological grain is lost. One way or another, a person who wants to buy makes changes, let's call it, in the language of design, he wants to turn it around a little. And I have a different task, I want to give, just give what I do.
As for the performances, of course it is a standing ovation, there are shouts of the crowd, laughter, for me this is the best praise. I like it when people react vividly, when people laugh, it's very cool.

- Well, yes, I agree with you! Getting a charge of emotions, adrenaline is the best thing that can be for giving. What do you think is important for artists to achieve their goals? What advice would you give to aspiring artists?


Dmitry: here I will not be original, first of all you need to develop your own style. But it is often impossible to just give birth out of the blue. That is, this is a story just like the story of becoming a designer. This is always an oversight, that is, first of all, there must be a large layer of understanding of what is happening, the study of other authors, and against the background of this, experiments begin. The beginning is very primitive, with copying some aspects, understanding them. And then it all adds up to a kind of alchemical formula, when a person somewhere notices how to work with light, somewhere with a form, somewhere with an idea. And then something of his own is born. Because in the early stages, both with me and with other authors, I often notice some kind of associative connection. That is, we look at the work and say: "so, and this has already happened", and say where it was copied from. And aerobatics, when they compare creativity with us.
As for the advice, this is primarily development. It is necessary to go to galleries, to exhibitions of contemporary art, not only in order to see and absorb the visual range there, but to get acquainted with gallery owners, get acquainted with the organizers, with participants, just with ordinary people. It happens to me that I can quite shamelessly approach a person and, if I like him to start some kind of dialogue, I will somehow get to know him there. All these things are very important because the world is moving forward just colossally, now with social networks. That is, the format of creativity that was 5 years ago is completely different from what it is now.      
Now it is very important to exchange, enter into some kind of collaboration. If earlier the attitude was “I and only I move, do not share anything with anyone,” now this strategy will lead to creative extinction. Now it is very important to collaborate with the guys, to find new acquaintances. # Nbsp; This I would single out as the most important aspect - this is the development of your own style and of course there are absolutely no compromises with the circumstances.
As soon as you start doing some kind of creativity, it is always experiments. And experiments, in turn, are not traversed paths and there bumps begin to fall immediately on the head. This must be immediately accepted as a kind of rain that will pass over time and cannot be avoided.

- How do you feel about competitions? This can be useful, because this is a collaboration?


Dmitry: In fact, there have been a lot of competitions lately. As soon as the pandemic began, in my case all this intensified to somehow manifest itself somewhere. Of the last, where I participated, and later became a co-curator there, it was Art Desil in Miami.  
At first I was a participant there. Then the guys remembered that I was a rather ambitious, active person and they called me to co-curators. Since I myself am a designer, I took over all applied things, posters, leaflets, websites. It was a kind of barter, I gave them my creative possession, and they gave some of the glory they received.

-Many are now interested in what the main trends of contemporary art are in trend. What can you highlight?


Dmitry: This is actually a very difficult question. Because after the strong development of social networks, there is a viewer for everything, so there is a demand for everything and there is a supply for everything.
I try to often visit exhibitions of different formats, I have something favorite, but sometimes I force myself to go and see. Even if I don't like it, it's still some kind of variety in the diet - what other people do.
Probably, I cannot single out something that prevails. Previously, the term "contemporary art" people imagined that something was so abstract, incomprehensible, but now it is defined for some other classes. Therefore, I would not be able to highlight something specific. I myself like things that are lighter, more positive, which somehow exalt a person, glorify his spirit. This cannot be called contemporary art, I like socialist realism. I myself am from the Urals, we had a pool there, where there was a huge fresco on the wall depicting a man and a woman in some kind of inspiring dynamic poses. And all this somehow causes more aesthetic delight in me than some kind of deformography. When, on the contrary, it shows that there a person is weak, twisted. These things never turned me on, I did not understand them.
In general, I believe that if the author does something, then he should be responsible for influencing the mass audience. After all, when it is gaining popularity, the question arises: "Was it worth it if everyone is now looking at it?"

We thank Dmitry for such a deep and meaningful dialogue. We are sure that everyone will find here something of their own and for themselves.
For our part, we cannot fail to notice the simple and well-known truth "A talented person is talented in everything." The main thing is to develop and not stand still, try something new and discover new facets.

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