Anatoly Afanasyevich Arapov was born in St. Petersburg on November 21, 1876. He studied at MUZHVZ (1897-1906). In 1911 he traveled to Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
At exhibitions since 1904. (HUSBAND). In 1907 - participant of the exhibition "Blue Rose"; 1910 - SRH in Kiev; 1911, 1912, 1913 - "World of Art" in St. Petersburg; 1914 - exhibitions of paintings and sculptures "Artists of Moscow - victims of the war"; exhibitor of exhibitions "Theatrical decorative art in the USSR 1917-1927" in the Academy of Arts in Leningrad, "Artists of the Soviet Theater (1917-1935) in Leningrad (1936), Moscow (1945, 1947, 1956, 1957. ).
He worked in the theater since 1905.. He designed performances in the theaters of N.N. Zlobin and the Free Theater (Moscow), F. Komissarzhevskaya (Petrograd). After 1917, he designed performances in theaters in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Vitebsk, Saratov and other cities.
He worked at film studios in Moscow and Leningrad: "The Decembrists" (1926), "The Poet and the Tsar" (1927), "Kastus Kalinovsky" (1928), "The Feast of St. Jorgen" (1930), "The Bride" (1936).
Theater and cinema artist, painter, graphic artist. He began his career as a symbolist, in the 1920s - a constructivist, since the 1930s - a socialist realist. Theatrical and film works are marked by a keen sense of style, figuratively characteristic.
Very individual in easel painting (oil, tempera, pastel). Among his works are portraits, still lifes with views of ancient parks, ancient Russian architecture, memorable places associated with the life of A.S. Pushkin, P.I. Tchaikovsky, A.N. Ostrovsky, T.G. Shevchenko.
Anatoly Afanasyevich Arapov died on December 22, 1949 in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery of the capital.
