Anastasia Kurakina
Pink panter painting
2023

Name: Pink panter painting
Brand: Anastasia Kurakina
Price: 5986.11 USD
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About the Item

Anastasia Kurakina's works on paper are at the Vatican Museums collection since 2017 oil thick brush strokes mixed with acrylic, ink, watercolour on unique one of a kind lithograph (no multiples) hand signed frame with glass included if required +15 kg weight if with the frame) The artist recalls that at an early age she loved to spend hours and hours leafing through art books of the Italian Renaissance, contemplating the beauty and mastery of the cornerstones of art history. Kurakina since the age of three has always known that she would become a painter and, from that moment on, that great passion has always been well rooted and present in her state of mind. In her works we can find many memories of the great masters of contemporary art including Modigliani, Morandi, Bacon, Hockney, Van Gogh, Klimt, Schiele… , proof of her commendable craftsmanship and progressive stylistic evolution. Each work of Kurakina has a history and its development in which she is not only the creator but she participates in the creative process of which result she is quite unaware,and Anastasia loves to continually surprise herself with her own creations. In search of the human essence As an artist, Anastasia Kurakina nurtures a great fondness for human beings. Fascinated by the complex psychology of each individual, she repeatedly tries to capture those characteristics that define our uniqueness. This is why she prefers to work from living models. 'If someone is sitting in front of me, I can feel that person much more intensely and arrive at a fascinating pose while talking. I find it even more interesting to portray people in their own environment, because their homes often reveal a lot about who they are,' Kurakina says. Although she works with various techniques and materials, Kurakina's preference is for watercolour on paper. 'I love the directness of watercolour. Every painterly gesture is definitive, and therefore surprising. Moreover, watercolour allows you to leave a large part of the background white, so the image dialogues with the background and, thanks to its transparency, acquires a certain lightness. Although I sometimes dare to apply a few strokes of oil paint, as a solid counterbalance to the soft watercolours.' 'Like Henri Matisse and Italian Renaissance painters like Giotto, I experiment with the vibrant power of colours, trying to leave academic knowledge behind. Like Egon Schiele, I play with framing, making my characters seem to want to escape from their frame. Each new work arises instinctively, and is also a discovery for me every time. If other people experience the same emotions afterwards, that is pure magic.' Anastasia Kurakina s'portraits that excite the observer. The soul of Anastasia Kurakina has always been nourished by the sacred fire of art, so much so that even before starting to walk she was surrounded by art in all its forms. The artist recalls that at an early age she loved to spend hours and hours leafing through art books of the Italian Renaissance, contemplating the beauty and mastery of the cornerstones of art history. Kurakina since the age of three has always known that she would become a painter and, from that moment on, that great passion has always been well rooted and present in her state of mind. In her works we can find many memories of the great masters of contemporary art including Modigliani, Morandi, Bacon, Hockney, Van Gogh, Klimt, Schiele… , proof of her commendable craftsmanship and progressive stylistic evolution. Each work of Kurakina has a history and its development in which she is not only the creator but she participates in the creative process of which result she is quite unaware,and Anastasia loves to continually surprise herself with her own creations. Anastasia Kurakina recently exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists at the Bicentennial Exhibition 2023 at the Mall Galleries in London, YICCA Contemporary Art Prize 2023 in Venice,Italy, London Biennale 2023 in London, Chelsea Old Town Hall in 2023. She was one of the best 50 portrait artist in the world selected for the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London in 2017. Her drawings are included at the Vatican Museum collection of contemporary art. The portraits of Anastasia Kurakina are not descriptions of the physiognomies in a realistic sense but capture the essence of the subject, in a nutshell they are a snapshot of the soul. In addition, she as an artist is able to capture in a few gestures the moment in which the subject fully reveals his soul, his most intimate and authentic being. The charm of Kurakina“s works lies in her mature introspective talent, which allows her to bring the most intimate qualities of the person to expression, transforming each portrait into an inner mirror. She manages to enhance what she encounters and to embody everything that is charged in a gaze, giving strength to the gestural sign and color. Anastasia dialogues with the chromatic material which she lets flow freely onto the support, touching the most intimate strings of the viewer”s soul. They are colorful emotions that cling to the support and that are established in the soul through the perception of the visual impulse. Each color represents an emotion and a feeling, vibrating on the support, becoming the narrative of an eternalized fleeting moment. Each subject is placed in a thoughtful, detached atmosphere but at the same time not devoid of emotional participation. Kurakina’s language is characterized by freedom of the sign, soft chromatism and rapidity of representation. She is an artist recognized above all for her ability to translate emotional expressions, inner disturbances in order to reveal the psyche of the represented subjects. Anastasia Kurakina does not portray reality but it is the reality itself to become a representation of the inner world of all of us, in a portentous whole. Collective exhibitions: 2023 London biennale, Chelsea, Old Town Hall; 2023 YICCA International art contest, Venice, finalists exhibition; 2023-Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London,UK; 2023 - London, UK, Sunny Art Award International exhibition finalist; 2023 -Royal British Painters Society, Mall Galleries exhibition, London, UK; 2019 – London, UK Royal Watercolor Society’s Contemporary Watercolor Competition, Bankside gallery; 2018 – Edinburgh, UK, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award; 2017 – Vatican, Vatican Museums, “Antico Presente” exhibition; 2017 – London, UK, Sunny Art Award exhibition, finalist Sunny Art Center; 2017 – Exeter, UK, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, BP Portrait Award; 2017 – London, UK, National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award; 2017 – London, Works on paper Art Fair, Royal Geographic Society; 2016 – Rome, live painting at Brasilian Embassy at Simone Ghera’s “Dance inside Brasil” exhibition; 2016 – Oxford, UK, Oxford International Art Fair; 2015 – Mexico, MUMEDI Mexican Museum of Design; 2015 – Cambridge, UK, Cambridge International Art Fair; 2015 – Rome, Museum of Contemporary art MACRO; 2013 – Los Angeles, La luz de Jesus Gallery; 2013 – Shanghai, International Art Fair of Contemporary Art; 2013 – Rome, Embassy of Iraq, Embassy of Egypt; 2013 – Venice, Arte Laguna Prize’s exhibition at Venice’s Arsenal; 2012 – Rome, «Green blood»at Dorothy Circus Gallery; 2011 – Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome; 2010 – Naples, “Biennial of the artist’s book”; 2009 – La Paz, Bolivia, 4°Bienal Internacional Siart; 2008 – Bari, 28th International Fair of modern and contemporary Art; 2008 – Moscow, “Art Manezh 2008”, Central Exhibitions Hall Manege. Collections: Private collections in Italy, UK, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Singapore, USA, Vatican Museums, Nina lobanova-Rostovskaya (London), National Museum of Art Humor of Tolentino, National Museum of Sacred Art of Nonantola (Italy), Marchese Sacchetti(Rome), National Centre for Manzoni’s Studies (Milan). Personal exhibitions: 2022 - Modern & contemporary art Gallery, double show in Rome; 2019- la Scala d’oro gallery in Rome, 2019 – Rome, Marino Gallery; 2018 –Milan, Zanuso Gallery; 2017 – London, Russian Cultual Centre; 2017 –Luzern, Switzerland, International Comic Festival; 2017 – Rome, Russian Center of Culture and Science; 2016 – St.Petersburg, the Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center, Art League Gallery; 2016 – Porto Cervo, Sardinia,MDM Museum of Contemporary Art; 2016 – Rome, American Embassy; 2013 – Tolentino (MC), International Art Museum of Tolentino; 2006 – Moscow, Central House of Artist. Awards: 2017 – Rome, I prize of the national award “Arte&sport” of the AONI (National Italian Olympic Academy); 2015 – Rome, Adrenalina prize I prize; 2013 – Rome, Adrenalina prize under 35 and prize of the public, Museum of Contemporary Art MACRO; 2013 – Chieti, Milan, Golden Medal of«Illustrate Manzoni»award, Chieti-Milano Manzoni’s Museum, Italy; 2012 – Milan, Winner of the scholarship for the artistic research of Socetà Umanitaria of Milan; 2011 – Tolentino, I prize “City of Tolentino” of the 26 th edition of the International Bienniale of Art Humor of Tolentino; 2008 – Modena, I prize “Under 25” of the national Competition of Contemporary Sacred Art “Familia Sancta“. Art education: 2018 Sorbonne University, Paris 2014 – MA Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome; 2012 – Academy of Fine Arts of Rome; 2005 – Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Academy of Fine Arts of Russia.

Creator:

Anastasia Kurakina (1987, Russian)

Creation Year:

2023

Dimensions:

Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)

Medium:

Paper,Oil,Watercolor,Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Expressionist

Period:

21st Century