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Presents:![]() Anatole Krasnyansky |
Anatole Krasnyansky, now residing in California, was already a prominent architect
and watercolorist when he left the U.S.S.R. for the United States in 1975, where he
found fertile ground for his aesthetic growth. His traditional cityscapes, much
admired in Europe, have grown richer, freer and more expressive; and in recent
years he has evolved a second, wholly new style with which to render the experience
and ideas of his new life in the United States.
With a Master’s Degree in Architecture and Fine Art, he is well versed in every aspect
of the structure and design of the buildings he depicts. Since his arrival to the U.S.
in 1975, the artist has found important uses for his knowledge of architecture, design
and his creative imagination, and he has realized his tremendous potential and achieved
virtuosity in several different artistic areas. Working as a scenic artist in television,
motion pictures and the theatre, he has designed sets calling for his specialized background.
Always a lover of the baroque, he incorporated the strength and fluid grace of that style into
his figural compositions, capturing the sense of motion with which a building makes a line flow
from one area to another.
Krasnyansky’s awareness of the interdependence of architecture, sculpture, painting and applied art,
and his knowledge of these diverse disciplines have shaped his career and found expression in his art.
Through experimentation he has developed his own artistic method, one that has freed him from the
constraints of traditional watercolor techniques. Krasnyansky’s innovative inclusion of paper
texture into the creative process is a dynamic component of his art, resulting in an expansion
of the medium’s potential. He is one of the first artists to elevate the watercolor medium to
the expressive possibilities usually associated with oil painting.
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