Vladimir Borisovich Yankilevsky (Russian:

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 Владимир Борисович Янкилевский) (born February 15, 1938) is a Russian

Russians

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 artist known mostly for his participation in the Soviet Nonconformist Art

Soviet Nonconformist Art

The term Soviet Nonconformist Art refers to art produced in the former Soviet Union from 1953-1986 outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism...

 movement of the 1960s through the 1980s. Perhaps his most famous works are his triptych

Triptych

A triptych , from tri-= "three" + ptysso= "to fold") is a work of art which is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works...

s, works that are difficult to classify, occupying a unique middle ground between painting

Painting

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, and sculpture

Sculpture

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, 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

Soviet Union

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, 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

Nikita Khrushchev

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 famously chastised the Nonconformist Art Movement as degenerate.
Yankilevsky currently lives in Paris

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, France

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with his wife Rimma.

External links

• Official Website: http://yankilevsky.free.fr/