Georgy Kurasov Painting

Realistic acrylic painting of Georgy Kurasov, painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 90 cm

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by Paul Meijering

Original - Not For Sale

Price

Not Specified

Dimensions

90.000 x 90.000 x 1.000 cm.

Title

Georgy Kurasov Painting

Artist

Paul Meijering

Medium

Painting - Acrylic Painting On Panel

Description

Realistic acrylic painting of Georgy Kurasov, painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 90 cm

Georgy Kurasov was born in 1958 in the USSR, then Leningrad. He still lives and works in the same place, but now the country is Russia and the city is called St Petersburg.

His hometown was irrational from the moment it was founded. Located at the same latitude as the southern shores of Alaska, in the swampy delta of the Neva River where no one had ever settled, this new capital grew up on the edge of a monstrous empire.
Here, on the completely flat surface carved by rivers, streams and canals, European architects, like pictures on a canvas, laid out straight avenues, streets and squares, built Greco-Roman porticoes and Baroque palazzos, erected sculptures and fountains, in the midst of something akin to permafrost where half the year is dominated by ice and frost and the other half by moisture and rain

Georgy spent his childhood on the side of Petrograd, in the north of the city, in a tiny flat with windows that looked out onto an even smaller courtyard. As far as he remembers, he modelled things in plasticine and drew resting on the huge wooden window sills.
At the age of 13, his mother placed him in art school at the Academy of Fine Arts. During the interview, it was politely explained that there was nothing for Georgy in the painting department because he had a total lack of sense of colour. So they suggested Georgy Kurasov join the sculpture class.

In 1977, Georgy Kurasov entered the sculpture department of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Uploaded

February 2nd, 2024