Vladimir Yankilevsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian artist
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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Vladimir Yankilevsky
- Vladimir Borisovich Yankilevsky (Russian: ???????? ????????? ???????????) (February 15, 1938, Moscow – January 4, 2018, Paris) was a Russian artist known mostly for his participation in the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement of the 1960s through the 1980s.
- Perhaps his most famous works are his triptychs, works that are difficult to classify, occupying a unique middle ground between painting, and sculpture, similar in some ways to Rauschenberg's combines.
- On the most basic level, these works use disorienting, often nightmarish imagery to paint a picture of restrictive mental states associated with daily life in the Soviet Union, and with the human condition in general.
- He is also known for having participated in the Manezh Art Exhibit of 1962, during which Nikita Khrushchev famously chastised the Nonconformist Art Movement as degenerate.
- Yankilevsky last lived in Paris, France with his wife Rimma.
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