Biography Joulia Vitaliy
	Mrs. Vitaliy began studying at the age of eleven, in a traditional school of arts, where her main disciplines included drawing, painting, composition, sculpture and history of arts. It was an academic school located in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg, Russia, in which most of the attention was dedicated to the study of still life, portrait, nature, human anatomy, the study of laws for construction perspectives in space, harmony of tone and color, and the study of styles and techniques of "Old Masters." After graduating, Joulia continued her education in Saint Petersburg, regarded by many as the cultural center of Eastern Europe. Artistic training in Russia was centered around two main institutions: Repins Academy of Arts, and Muhin's Institute of Industrial Decorative Arts. While enrolling in the M.I.I.D.A., and majoring in industrial graphics, Joulia got some additional credits from Krupskaya's Institute of Culture, including history of arts, philosophy and psychology, and also took private lessons in painting and drawing from professors at Repin's Academy of Arts. At the same time as she worked to create her own artistic style, she was more and more captivated by works of the French Impressionists - their fresh vivid colors and their originality in combination of light and color. Because of her obsession with Western European artists, Mrs. Vitaliy's career took a sharp turn away from traditional Russian School of Arts, and she began to exhibit her work as a member of a group of artists whose names later became acknowledged and respected throughout the European art world, and were included in the history of Russian Avant-garde. During this time, Joulia actively exhibited and sold her paintings to private and corporate owners in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Riga, Tallin and abroad in Finland, Sweden, and Germany. As a result of her constant search for new forms of expression, and her growing interest in theatrical production, fashion, and sculpture, Mrs. Vitaliy, along with two other members of her circle, created a conceptual Avant-garde theatrical group know as Laboratory of Experimental Facion, which at its peak was reviewed by a number of art magazines, including Europe's version of "Vogue," and hailed as a leader in the Russian Pop-Art Scene. By the end of the eighties, Joulia was dividing her time between Russia, where with the return to capitalistic structure she had an interest in numerous commercial ventures like her theater and Pulkovskaya Gallery, where she sold hers and other members' works to mainly European and American customers, and Finland, where she became a resident to further deepen her education by studying abstract art at Helsinki's Academy of Art. In the Spring of 1995, Joulia moved to the United States, and with this move came to the realization of finally being able to dedicate herself to being a full time artist, to put together her talent, knowledge and experiences gained in Europe and Russia, in order to evolve into a kind of painter she's always dreamt of being. During the first two years, she spent most of her time travelling up and down the cost of the Atlantic Ocean and Florida, keeping an eye on an ever growing American art scene and learning yet another language. She went public in the Spring of 1997, and was immediately noticed by the local art writers, and she has been getting great reviews ever since.