Saturday, August 6, 2011

Vladimir Kush's arts and paintings (part I)

Surreal paintings of Vladimir Kush – Part II

Candle




Butterfly Apple




Still Life with Mandolin



Arrival of the Flower Ship




Atlas of Wander








Trojan Horse




To The Safe Haven




Sunrise by the Ocean





Millennium Watchman




Fauna la Mancha




Laser Tune Up




Metamorphosis




Departure of Winged Ship




Pearl




Shell



Breach



Current



Deep Sea Project




Book of Books



Music of the Woods






Purse



African Sonata



Vladimir Kush ( Moscow , 1965 ) is a painter and sculptor Russian surrealist , though he prefers to define his art, metaphorical realism .


Biography
He was born in 1965 in Moscow and began to draw and show his artistic ability at the age of three or four years. He began to attend art school to seven years in Russia. He spent the first half of his day in regular school, meeting the requirements, and the second half was spent in art classes until nine at night. He entered the Moscow Art Institute at seventeen, and when eighteen years old, began two years compulsory military service, was soon commissioned to paint frescoes and paintings, rather than perform the functions of regular infantry.
According to the Hindu Kush, the major artists who have influenced his style since his first experience in art school are Monet , Botticelli , Bosch , Van Gogh , Durer , Schinkel , Vermeer and Dali . Weary of the pictorial style of Cezanne focused on which the art school, Kush became a teenager to images surreal and the surreal painted his first painting at the age of fourteen. Kush experimented with various styles of impressionism after seeing a book of works by Salvador Dalí in the late Eighties , but fortunately did not lose because the style of form. Strongly influenced by his father, a mathematician, believed that the Hindu Kush realistic paintings show the artist's professional skill and drew the audience in a way so that they could accept the impossible images painted as realistic enough to see the metaphors contained in them and explore the different levels of meaning.
In 1987 he began selling his paintings and exhibit them in the Union of Artists. Around the same time he was invited to paint a series of portraits for the staff of the embassy of the United States , although he was forced to reduce his work on portraits after the KGB became suspicious of his involvement with the Americans because of books which he read during his military service.
In 1990 he showed his works in Germany together with two other Russian artists, visited Los Angeles for an exhibition and remained in the United States.
In 1991 his dream became reality. For a time he was able to rent a small garage in Los Angeles in which to paint, but could not find anywhere how to show his works. He earned money by portraying people on the pier in Santa Monica . At the end of their savings in expenses a ticket to Hawaii and slept on the beach in Santa Monica until the flight departed days later.
His art was first noticed from mainland Asia and later spread to America. In 2001 Kush opened his first art gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, on the islands of Hawaii . Currently also another gallery Kush Fine Art in Laguna Beach in California .

(info. from wiki)



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