Sots Art 21st century
Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov
Yekaterinburg 05.09.1933
Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov (Russian: Эрик Владимирович Булатов) is a Soviet and Russian avant-garde artist of the XX-XXI centuries. His paintings are an experimental confrontation of modernist style and traditional painting. The main principle of Bulatov's paintings is the confrontation of the real space and the pictorial plane.
Since 1989, Bulatov lived in New York, and in 1992, he moved to the capital of France, where he lives and works to this day, sometimes visiting Russia.
Bulatov's works are in constant demand at auctions of contemporary art, he is considered one of the most expensive contemporary Russian artists. For example, his work "Soviet Cosmos" was sold for about $1.6 million at the Phillips auction.
1933
Dmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel
Moscow 14.07.1960 — Berlin 14.08.2022
Dmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Врубель) was a Russian painter. He was best known for his East Side Gallery-painting My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, depicting the kissing communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.
1960–2022