Rinat Kuranshin Portraits | aeca museum eng

PORTRAITS OF HISTORICAL FIGURES

Russian-British artist Rinat Kuramshin has gained international recognition as a portrait painter. During his career, he painted a series of portraits of world-famous composers, playwrights, musicians, choreographers, opera and ballet artists, patrons and other outstanding personalities who have made a great contribution to the development of world culture. Many portrait paintings have been commissioned by governments, corporations, associations, community organizations and individuals.

The Museum exhibitions present portraits of such great composers as G.Handel, P.Tchaikovsky, E.Elgar, M.Mussorgsky, R.V.Williams,

N.Rimsky-Korsakov, B.Britten, I.Stravinsky, S.Rachmaninov,

A.Glazunov, S.Prokofiev, A.Scriabin, M.Glinka, M.Balakirev, etc.

Among the portraits of prominent theatrical figures: S. Diaghilev,

M. Petipa, F. Ashton, A. Pavlova, K. Macmillan, A. Vaganova,

N.de Valois, T. Karsavina, M. Ramber, R. Nuriev, M. Fontaine,

F. Chaliapin, G. Ulanova, M. Plisetskaya, etc.

Russian playwrights, writers and poets are represented in the portraits of Pushkin, M.Lermontov, L.Tolstoy, F.Dostoevsky, I.Turgenev, A.Chekhov, N.Gogol, M.Bulgakov, B.Pasternak, S.Yesenin, A.Blok, A.Akhmatova, etc.

Among the portraits of Russian Soviet writers and poets:

V.Shukshin, R.Gamzatov, B.Okudzhava, Ch.Aitmatov, G.Tukay, M.Jalil, M.Gafuri, B.Akhmadullina, I.Brodsky, A.Solzhenitsyn,

Y.Uksay, K.Gerd, O.Epay, and others.

"Portrait of Pyotr Tchaikovsky"

Artist Rinat Kuramshin

British playwrights, writers and poets are represented in portraits of W. Shakespeare, J. Byron, C. Dickens,

B.Shaw, A.Conan Doyle, O.Wilde, G.Wells, L.Carroll, R.Kipling, and others.

Portraits by Rinat Kuramshin are often published in Russian and foreign media, using them to illustrate books and articles about famous people. The portraits were presented in various biographical and historical programs on TV.

THEATER DIRECTORS, CHOREOGRAPHERS,

OPERA & BALLET ACTORS