We know artist Andrei Budaev mainly from projects related to the political situation in Russia. Consider the biography and work of the artist.
short biography
The artist Andrei Budaev hails from Moscow, where he was born in 1963. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Moscow and Russia. Since 1995, he began to engage in his creative project on political and social topics. In 1996, he won the Grand Prix of the fourth Graphic Biennale, which took place in Kaliningrad.
Until now, she has held solo exhibitions in major Russian and foreign cities: in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Jerusalem, New York, and Washington. Budaev’s canvases can be found in private Russian and foreign collections.
Pictures of Andrei Budaev
Budaev’s work is designated as a “political and social poster.” These are collages dedicated to Russian political collisions, in which famous politicians act in an atmosphere of classic pictorial masterpieces. His paintings can be called quite provocative satire, and usually viewers and critics with each new exhibition of Budaev expect that they are about to close it. However, the artist continues to create in his original genre, and no one is going to close his exhibitions.
He performs his work in the genre of collage, combining famous paintings and photographs of public and political figures.
According to the generally accepted opinion that has developed in Russia and abroad, the paintings of Andrei Budaev are characterized by excellent humor, originality, openness, the ability to judge with an open mind, a satire. Budaev is a kind of critic of reality, preserving a sound mind and sense of humor in absurd situations, as well as an alternative historian, who in his own way narrates the events of Russian reality, using new artistic forms for this.
It is noted that the artist himself, in contrast to his paintings, is a quiet, gentle and modest person.