Anatoly Kulinich

ANATOLY KULINICH

Anatoly Kulinich was born and grew up in the Sumy region in Ukraine in 1949. In 1970, he graduated from the 1905 Moscow College of Fine Arts and went on to become a member of the Union of Young Artists and Art Critics of the Moscow Artists Union.

In 1982, he joined the USSR Union of Artists. Kulinich has also received the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation.

Kulinich’s works are found in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia; the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, Russia; the Museum of Folk Graphics in Moscow, Russia; the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia; in other museums in Russia and Ukraine and in private collections in Italy, France, Germany, USA, Great Britain, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Venezuela, Columbia, India, Greece, Turkey, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Bulgaria and other countries.

Borrowing from traditional Lubok prints, primitive folk art and icons, Kulinich’s style is layered with meaning.

The skewed perspectives of eerie woodland clearings and log cabins could be illustrated fairytales of Grimms, a wilting cockerel in the blood red jaws of a predator is the moralistic stuff of Aesop. Lyrically rendered yet socially relevant, the depiction of reality continues to warp as these tales get taller.

Like Chagall, Kulinich paints simple pictures of the seasons, the night-time dreams of flying, the milking of cows and birthing of foals. The fables are peopled by hapless heroes, old folks, village idiots and city slickers, all presented with a great deal of compassion. Many of his characters appear strange as they behave in ordinary ways against extraordinary conditions.

Distorted by allegory, their backgrounds are rooted in childhood memories.

Full Moon Anatoly Kulinich

Like signs from the zodiac, figures are symbolic: a golden goddess floats over our heads, trailing a silk scarf across a star-studded sky; a peasant woman brandishes her rake. Things are not what they seem; enlarging, shrinking, mutating. Soon enough though, you’ll grasp the moral of the story.

Peasants Oil on canvas 80 x 50 cm

By The Well Oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm

Midnight Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm

Armful Of Hay Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm

Vision Oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm

Flotant Oil on canvas 58 x 107.5 cm

Running Time Oil on canvas 80 x 50 cm

Night Cow Oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm

Wanderer Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm

Bulls Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm

In A Hut Oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm

Night Oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm

Selected Exhibitions 2008 2007 2005 2004 2002 2001 1999 1998

Vincent Gallery, Moscow 1999 – Russian Cultural Center, Gdansk, Poland Institutes for Studies in Arts, Moscow Bratislava, Slovakia Russian Embassy in Budapest, Hungary House of Artists of the Moscow Artists Union, Moscow Russian Academy for Security and Law Enforcement, Moscow Russian Center for International Cooperation, Moscow Sumy Region Fine Arts Museum, Sumy, Ukraine Exhibition hall of Nashe Nasledie Journal, Moscow Town hall of Torun, Poland Russian Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia Pksov State Museum of History, Architecture and Arts, Russia

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