Rinat Kuramshin is a painter and graphic artist, ethnographer and public figure. He is known as the author of a series of portraits of outstanding historical figures. In addition to portraits, he created genre paintings, series of works on ballet and theater themes, as well as drawings and engravings for literary works.

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R.Kuramshin has gained international recognition as a Portrait painter. During his career, he painted a number of portraits of world famous writers, poets, composers, playwrights, musicians, choreographers, opera singers, ballet dancers 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 and other community organizations.

 

Rinat Kuramshin made a lot of art works on the theme of Ballet and Classical dance. To create these works, Rinat Kuramshin collaborated with choreographers and ballet dancers in theaters in Great Britain, France, Russia, and other European and Asian countries. In his paintings we can see famous ballet performances, rehearsals in dance classes, as well as outstanding theatrical figures, choreographers, composers, ballet dancers.

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The series of engravings "Fables" demonstrates the high skill of

Rinat Kuramshin as a graphic artist. The basis for this series was numerous sketches of animals by R.Kuramshin and his vivid impressions of Lafontaine’s fables. Stories with fabulous animals have a deep philosophical meaning, ridiculing negative human traits through the habits and behavior of animals.

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Rinat Kuramshin often chooses Horses as subjects for his paintings and drawings. Many horse breeders and hypnology experts believe that Rinat's paintings truthfully depict the amazing plasticity, grace and strength of a horse. R.Kuramshin equestrian paintings can be seen in public, corporate and private collections in many countries.

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Genre paintings by Rinat Kuramshin mainly reflect the life of small towns and villages. In the paintings, the artist depicts close friends and other people with whom he happened to live in the same era. Rinat Kuramshin has a great artistic gift and an excellent sense of color, which allows him to reflect the different shades of nature. In the paintings on the theme of village life, we can see the influence of the Barbizon and the Impressionists. Among his most famous genre paintings are: "Hay time", "Morning Road", "Bathing Horses", "Washerwomen", "Mug of Milk", "Boy and Herd", "Horses on the River. Evening", "Girl and Geese", "Village Holiday" and others.

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Paintings and graphic works of Rinat Kuramshin took part in many museum exhibitions and received positive reviews from museum specialists, art critics, art collectors and other experts. His artworks have been awarded diplomas and medals at international exhibitions.

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"I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and variety of paintings in the exhibition. I really liked the portraits of writers and composers. Bravo to you for giving us so much pleasure with your paintings.

I will be glad to have a number of works in our collection"

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Prince N.D. Lobanov-Rostovsky
Advisor to auction houses Christie’s  and Sotheby’s, Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of the Theatre Museum in London, Member of the Association of benefactors of the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York, philanthropist, art collector, banker.

(About Rinat Kuramshin exhibition in London)