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Artist's Biography
Vladimir Kush is a Russian-born surrealist painter and sculptor, although he prefers to refer to his art as metaphorical realism.He was born in 1965 in Moscow began drawing and showing artistic ability when he was a child. He started attending an art school at the age of seven in Russia. He entered the Moscow Art Institute at age 17, and when he went for his mandatory two years of military service at 18 was soon set to painting murals and canvases rather than regular infantry duties.
The artists who influenced his style since his first experience in art school are Monet, Botticelli, Bosch, van Gogh, Dürer, Schinkel, Vermeer, and Dali to name a few. Kush painted surreal images as a teenager and his first at the age of 14. He experimented with different styles of impressionism after seeing a book of Salvador Dalí's work in the late 1980s, but it didn't appeal because shape was lost in the style. Strongly influenced by his father (a scientist), he believes that realistic paintings show the artist's professional skill and draw the viewer in so that they accept the impossible images enough to see the metaphors in them and explore the different layers of meaning.
In 1987, he began to sell his paintings and exhibit them within the Union of Artists. Around the same time he was invited to paint a series of portraits for the U.S.
In 1990 he showed works in Germany together with two other Russian artists; he visited Los Angeles for a show and stayed in the United States.
His art was first noticed by the Asian continent and then spread into America. In 2001 he opened his first gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii. He also now has another Kush Fine Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, California.
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