Francisco Infante-Arana (russian: Франсиско Инфанте-Арана), born 1943 in
Vasilievka,
Saratov Oblast
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,
Soviet Union
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) is a Russian artist.
Background
Francisco Infante-Arana was born to a Spanish father and Russian mother, who raised him. Eventually he moved to
Moscow
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and enrolled in the
Moscow College of Decorative and Applied Arts. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he was a member of the artists' collective known as the
Movement Group, founded by
Lev Nussberg. He was and continues to be one of the premier
Russian avant-garde artists. Some of his work is currently on display at the Cold War Modern exhibition at the V & A in London.
Work's holders
* International Symposium in the Urals (1989), in Nepal (Kathmandu), Tibet (Lhasa, 2000), on Lake - (artists Francisco Infante-Arana and Nonna Goryunova,
Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev
Alexander Ponomarev (born 1957, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a multidisciplinary contemporary visual artist. He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture "for merits in literature and art" in 2008.
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, Vladimir Nasedkin,
Tatiana Badanina, Tishkov, Leonid, Shaburov, Alexander E., Porto, Ivan B., Chernyshev, Aristarchus A., Vladislav Yefimov, Batynkov, Konstantin,
Olga Chernysheva)
External links
* Biographies
* Photos of Infante-Arana's works
1943 births
Living people
20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
21st-century Russian painters
Soviet Nonconformist Art
Russian avant-garde
Russian people of Spanish descent
Soviet artists
Soviet people of Spanish descent
20th-century Russian male artists
21st-century Russian male artists
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