Anatoliy Kryvolap Анатолій Дмитрович Криволап | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Alma mater | National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture |
Occupation | Painting |
Awards | Shevchenko National Prize (2012) |
Anatoly Kryvolap (Ukrainian: Анатолій Дмитрович Криволап, born 11 September 1946) is a Ukrainian artist, master of non-figurative painting. Full member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.[1]
Anatoly Kryvolap is considered the most "expensive" modern artist in Ukraine.[2] In 2011, at an auction in New York, the painting Steppe was sold for a record price for a Ukrainian painting.[3]
In 1976 graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute, faculty of Painting.[4]
From 1993 to 1995, Anatoly Kryvolap actively participated in the activities of the Picturesque Reserve, known in the history of modern Ukrainian art of the art group.[5]
On February 9, 2012, became a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine. Anatoly Kryvolap was awarded in Fine Arts nomination for his Ukrainian Motive cycle (which included 50 abstract landscapes).[6]
Since December 2016 – Member of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee of Ukraine.[7]
In 2019–2023, he created murals for the restored Church of the Intercession in Lypivka, Makariv Raion, Kyiv Oblast.[8]