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We know the artist Andrei Budaev mainly from projects related to the political situation in Russia. Let's take a closer look at the biography and work of the artist.
Short biography
Artist Andrey Budaev hails from Moscow, where he was born in 1963. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Moscow and Russia. Since 1995, he began to engage in his creative project on political and social topics. In 1996 he won the "Grand Prix" of the fourth Graphic Biennale, which was held in Kaliningrad.
Up to the present time he holds solo exhibitions in major Russian and foreign cities: in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Jerusalem, New York, Washington. Budaev's paintings can be found in private Russian and foreign collections.
Paintings by Andrey Budaev
Budaev's work is designated as a "political and social poster". These are collages dedicated to Russian political conflicts, in which famous politicians act in the setting of classical pictorial masterpieces. His paintings can be called rather defiant satire, and usually viewers and critics with each new exhibition of Budaev expect that it is about to be closed. However, the artist continues to create in hisoriginal genre, and no one is going to close his exhibitions.
He performs his work in the collage genre, combining famous paintings and photographs of public and political figures.
According to the generally accepted opinion in Russia and abroad, Andrei Budaev's paintings are characterized by excellent humor, originality, openness, the ability to judge impartially, satire. Budaev is a kind of critic of reality, maintaining common sense and a sense of humor in absurd situations, as well as an alternative historian, telling the events of Russian reality in his own way, using new art forms for this.
Note that the artist himself - in contrast to his paintings - is a quiet, gentle and modest person.
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