Anatole Krasnyansky

Anatole Krasnyansky (born in 1930 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-American artist who has gained prominencefact|date=July 2008 by pioneering a new watercolor technique. Through experimentation, Krasnyansky's introduced paper texture into his creative process and made it a dynamic component of his watercolors, resulting in an expansion of the medium's potential. With this new creative process, Krasnyansky added texture and depth to the watercolor medium and expanded its expressive possibilities to a level usually associated with oil painting.Fact|date=July 2008

Krasnyansky received master's degrees in fine art and architecture. Krasnyansky was a prominentfact|date=July 2008 architect and artist known for his watercolor cityscapes when he emigrated to the United States in 1975, and began working as a scenic artist for ABC and CBS, including the production of two Academy Awards shows.fact|date=July 2008 He subsequently became a set designer for Universal Studios (credits including The Blues Brothers and Battlestar Galactica) and the Stage Art Director for the Odyssey Theatre. [http://www.knottywood-treasures.com/id50.html Knottywood Treasures - Anatole Krasnyansky Biography ] ]

Krasnyansky has become known worldwide for his surrealist masked figuresFact|date=July 2008.

Krasnyansky's work has been exhibited at the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries in their exhibition "International Watercolor Masters", along with works from Marc Chagall, Camille Pissaro, and Diego Rivera. Krasnyansky's work has been featured in exhibitions at Stanford Universityfact|date=July 2008 and UCLAfact|date=July 2008 and has also been shown in solo exhibitions in Japan and around the United States.Fact|date=July 2008

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