Vladimir Kush Research Paper

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Vladimir Kush Surrealism is an avant-garde movement in art and literature that started in the early 1920s. Along the way, many renowned surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Pablo Picasso have built a pathway for this style of art that has influenced many others. One artist in particular is Vladimir Kush, a Russian born surrealist painter and sculptor. His inspiring works not only show different metaphors, but they also express his love for art. Vladimir Kush was born in 1965 in a small wooden house on a private cherry orchard near Moscow, Russia's famous Sokolniki Park His father, Oleg Konstantinovich Kush, was a mathematician, but the entire male half of his family was very fond of painting. This interest in art also showed in …show more content…
As the years went on, he entered the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School at age seventeen, but was unfortunately conscripted a year later. However, Kush's love for art did not go away. After six months of military training, the unit commander thought it would be more appropriate to employ him exclusively for peaceful purposes, that is to say, painting propagandistic posters After military service and graduating the Institute of Fine Arts, Kush continued his passion by painting portraits on Arbat Street to support his family. In 1987, Kush began to take part in exhibitions organized by a group of Soviet artists and art critics called the Union of Artists. Three years later at a show in Coburg, Germany, nearly all of his displayed paintings were sold. After closing the exhibition, he flew to Los Angeles and began, what he calls, his "America Odyssey." There, Kush worked in a small, rented home garage, but was unable to find a place to display his paintings. He earned money by drawing portraits on the Santa Monica pier and was eventually able to purchase a ticket to his dream land,