蒂美崔•丹尼士1966年出生于乌克兰。他天生就是画家，自他会说话走路前就开始拿画笔了。他的母亲也是个画家，第一个发现了他绘画的天分。她发现儿子通过画图来表达想法和感情，于是母亲用颜色和形状来跟他儿子交流。画画对蒂美崔来说就如同吃饭睡觉那么自然。

    五岁时，丹尼士就开始了他第一堂绘画课，他已经能画风景，肖像，静物和抽象的东西。十三岁他进入了当地的天才少年学校，十五岁就进入了克翰基州立艺术大学。

 

    丹尼士最喜欢的对象是城市景观。他画那些从书上读到的，广播里，人们谈话中听到的，以及邮票上的城市风景。他画出在心中构想的城市以及其中的街道，运河，门和窗。丹尼士最喜欢画门和窗，因为他们有符号意义。透过门和窗他可以看到现实中不存在的世界。他凭想象力就可以去到那梦中的世界。

    大学时期，他迷上了自己出生长大的城市。他画了很多不同楼房，木屋，大树下的小咖啡屋，同样也有南方城市的门和窗。在他的画中克翰基是一个温暖可爱的地方。

 

    1986年，丹尼士从大学毕业了，开始教画画。他马上意识到教书并不是他理想的事业-他想通过绘画来表达自己，而不是教别人画。他到部队当了3年兵，当他回来后，马上就进入了克翰基理工大学的油画系，开始以画为生。

    两年后他成为了乌克兰权威艺术协会的一员，他的画供不应求。他的职业绘画生涯开始了，并且开始在乌克兰，俄罗斯，和其他东欧国家展出。

    2000年时，克翰基州立美术馆为丹尼士的“城市和山川”举办了独展，并买下了他的三幅画作为永久收藏。

    2000-2001年，新泽西美术馆也买了他的三幅画。2003年，乌克兰政府买了他的一幅画，送给了美国驻乌克兰大使。

    从俄罗斯边境开放后，丹尼士去了欧洲很多他小时候就梦想的城市。他到了罗马，威尼斯，锡耶纳，法国的很多城市，荷兰，匈牙利，奥地利，希腊和土耳其。2005年他也会去美国东西海岸进行个人独立展览。

 

    简历：

    1982 克翰基州立艺术学院
        克翰基州立理工大学艺术系
        乌卡兰权威艺术家联盟成员
    2000 克翰基州立美术博物馆
    2001 新泽西现代艺术馆

    Dmitri Danish was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1966. He was a natural artist from the start, taking his first drawing pencil in hand before he was able to walk or talk. His mother, an artist herself, was the first to discover Dmitri's talent. She saw that he expressed his thoughts, feelings and desires through his creations, and she started communicating with her son via color and shape. Painting became as natural for Danish as breathing, eating, or sleeping.

    By age 5, Danish was taking his first professional painting lessons; he was already able to paint quality landscapes, portraits, still life's and abstract paintings. At age 13 he was accepted into a gifted children's art school in Kharkiv, and by age 15 he was enrolled at the Kharkiv State Art College (1982).

    Danish's most favorite genre was cityscapes. He painted cities that he read about in books, cities that he heard about on the radio or in people's conversations, and cities that he saw printed on postage stamps. He created new countries in his mind and painted their cities, streets, canals, doors and windows. Danish liked painting doors and windows most of all because of their symbolic appeal. They let him view and enter into unknown worlds, which he couldn't do in reality. His imagination was able to take him to those unusual and magical worlds that he saw in his dreams.

    In college Danish became fascinated with Kharkiv, the city where he was born and raised. He painted various buildings, wooden houses and walls, small coffee shops under huge old trees, and again, doors and windows from his Southern city. His paintings portrayed Kharkiv as a warm and cozy place to live.

    In 1986 Danish graduated from college and began to teach art. He quickly realized that teaching art was not his ideal career - he wanted to express himself through art, not teach others. Danish went into the army for three years and as soon as he returned, he immediately entered into the department of Fine Art at the Kharkiv States Polytechnic University. He began to paint for a living.

    After two years he became a member of the prestigious Union of Ukrainian Artists and his paintings were in much demand. His career of a fine artist took off and he began to exhibit in Ukraine, Russia and other Eastern European countries.

    In the year 2000 the Kharkiv State Museum of Fine Art conducted a solo exhibition of Danish's works called "Cities and Mountains" and purchased three of his paintings that are part of their permanent collection. During 2000-2001, the New Jersey Museum of Modern Art also purchased three of Danish's works. And, in 2003 the Ukrainian government purchased a painting and presented it to the outgoing ambassador of the United States to Ukraine.

    Danish has traveled most of Europe since the opening of the Russian borders visiting cities and countries he dreamed about as a child. He has spent time in Rome, Venice, Sienna, and in many cities of France, Holland, Hungary, Austria, Greece, and Turkey. He will make his first trip to the United States in 2005 for several one-man shows on both the East and West Coasts.

    1982 Kharkiv State Art College
        Department of Fine Art at the Kharkiv States Polytechnic University
        Member of the Prestigious Union of Ukrainian Artists
    2000 Kharkiv State Museum of Fine Art
    2001 New Jersey Museum of Modern Art

 【编辑：霍春常】