"At the Countryhouse" by Yuri Rakovsky, 76.5 x 45 cm, 2006

Genre: Expressionism, avant-garde

Method: Oil on canvas

Year: 2006

Size: 76.5 x 45 cm

Artist: Yuri Alexandrovich Rakovsky is a Russian contemporary artist, abstract painter, graphic artist, and painter, a custodian of the tradition of Russian abstract art. Born in Volgograd in 1963, he graduated from a children's art school, then moved to Vitebsk. He studied at the Kirov Pedagogical Institute in the art and graphics department, graduating in 1986. In the early 1990s, he moved to Moscow. In 1994, an exhibition of his work was held at the Polish Cultural Center. Yuri Alexandrovich was a member of the Avant-garde Abstraction group, which was organized in 1995 by Y. Skopov, S. Nekrasova, and A. Kryukov (former members of E. Belyutin’s New Reality group).