Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
In both her portraits and striking figurative paintings, internationally renowned artist Anastasia Kurakina seeks to deeply probe a subject beyond what can be purely represented in a given piece.
Born in Moscow in 1987, Kurakina spent her childhood surrounded by art, poring over books about the Italian Renaissance at an early age. Her love of art led her to study at several prestigious art schools including the Academy of Fine Arts of Russia, the Academy of Fine Arts Rome, where she obtained a master’s degree in fine art and, in 2018, the Sorbonne University in Paris.
In her figurative, abstract and interior paintings, Kurakina uses rich colors and provocative shapes to explore a bit more than what is eventually represented on the canvas. Throughout her artistic career, Kurakina’s expressive figurative and nude watercolors have garnered critical acclaim, with many critics drawing comparisons to the styles of such masters as Gustav Klimt, David Hockney and others. Since her first exhibition in Moscow in 2005, she has participated in shows around the world, including galleries and museums in Los Angeles, Mexico, London, Milan and elsewhere.
Kurakina’s works are held in the collections of the Nonantola Benedictine Museum and Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, the Centro Nazionale di Studi Manzoniani, the International Museum of Humor in Art in Tolentino and more.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Paper, Oil, Watercolor, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cotton, Cotton Canvas
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
20th Century Modern Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Gouache, Paper
Early 1900s Fauvist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
1960s Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
2010s Naturalistic Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Photographic Film, Photogram, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, ...
2010s Abstract Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Lithograph, Monotype
2010s American Realist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Photographic Film, Photogram, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, ...
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Anastasia Kurakina Portrait Paintings
Oil