Vladimir Kush: A Russian Artist

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Vladimir Kush was born in Moscow, Russia in 1965. Growing up in the city, Kush really wanted to leave its dull atmosphere to explore the world so he dreamed of distant places to entertain himself. At 4 years old, he began drawing and painting with great skill. At 7, Kush attended art school and his talent rapidly grew. 5 years later, Vladimir started to paint using different styles. This helped him to develop his creative style of what he now calls “metaphorical realism” with much symbolism. Kush was so focussed in art that in high school he went to school in the day but studied painting and sculpturing at night! When Kush was 17 years old he went to the Surikov Moscow Art Institute where he got most of his education in art. Shortly after this, Kush was forced to join the Soviet Army. In most of his military service, Kush painted murals and portraits of generals. After his military service, Vladimir studied more art and earned money by sketching portraits of people on the streets of Moscow but he still wanted to leave Russia and explore the world.
In 1990, Kush sold the majority of his paintings in an art show in Cohburg, Germany, and then flew to Los Angeles. But Vladimir could not find a place or art shop in here to display his artwork and only painted in a small home garage. But with his paintings, Kush earned enough money to go to Maui, Hawaii. That’s when Kush’s real success as an artist began. In 1993, a French dealer recognized how interesting Kush’s art was. He then planned an exhibition in Hong Kong, China, so that these people could see Kush’s unique paintings. It was so successful that it led to more exhibitions in America where Americans could see Kush’s art. They too thought it was excellent! In 2001, Kush Fine Art ...

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...colour correction in Redwood Cutting. In the original copy, the shade of the grass in the centre of all the cut-down trees is a nice dark green, making the forest grass appear to look alive have nothing wrong with it even though many several trees have been cut down. In the reproduction, the grass colour was changed to a browner shade to make the grass seem dead. The colour correction with the giclee print made the painting seem sadder because it shows more destruction to the forest from the logging. This helps to emphasize the message of bad outcomes of logging forests which Kush tries to show in Redwood Cutting.
Vladimir Kush is an excellent artist that is becoming more and more popular around the world because of his creativity in his artwork. He plans to open more exhibitions to display his paintings and sculptors and one day I would like to visit one of these!

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