Grisha Bruskin ..

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Grisha Bruskin

Born in 1945 in Moscow. (Grigory Davidovich Bruskin).
1957 entered the Moscow art school near the Planetarium.
1963 entered the Faculty of Applied Arts in Moscow Textile Institute.

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in 1966 participated in the 7 th Youth exhibition at the Artist's House at the Kuznetsk bridge in Moscow.
1969 presenting student work, Bruskin adopted in the Union of Artists in the section of painting.
Since the late 1970's working in parallel on two themes: the myth of Judaism and the Communist myth.
1980 creates the work in the form of fragments of an infinite pattern (alefbet "," Fundamental Lexicon, "codification" and others).
1983 solo exhibition Grisha Bruskin in Vilnius, Lithuania. A few days after the opening of the exhibition is closed by order of Comrade. Shepetisa, Secretary of the Division of ideology manual Lithuania. Artist call for a friendly court in the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists. Trying to exclude from the Union. Limited to public censure.
1984 exhibition opens Grisha Bruskin at the Central House of Artists. The exhibition is closed on the following day by order of Comrade. Rogozhin, Secretary MK party.
1985 Bruskin began work on sculptures.
1987 opened the first uncensored exhibition "The Artist and Modernity" in the exhibition hall Kashirka. Located in Moscow, an American film director Milos Forman gets 1 st part of the picture Bruskin "Fundamental lexicon.
1988 Bruskin exercise performance "Birth of a Hero" in the exhibition hall Kashirka with Pekarsky, Prigov, Rubinstein, Tarasova, etc.
Bruskin participates in the exhibition "I live - I see" in the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland.
July 7 is the first Moscow Sotheby's. Painting Bruskin "Fundamental Lexicon" - on posters and on the cover of the catalog.
Six works Bruskin sold for a record for contemporary Russian art prices.
Participates in the exhibition "Olympics of Art" at the National Museum in Seoul, South Korea.
President of the Chicago International Exhibition invites Bruskin come to Chicago and make a poster for this exhibition.
Since 1988 lives and works in New York.

Performances
1988 "The Birth of a hero. Showroom Kashirka Street Millionschikova, Moscow, Russia
1997 Grisha Bruskin /Vladimir Tarasov. "The elementary truth or Island - part of land surrounded by water." Festival KUKART-3. Tsarskoe Selo, Russia

Public procurement and installation

1995 Sculpture "Person" for the city of Ra'anana, Israel
1999 Triptych "Life is above all" for the renovated Reichstag in Berlin, Germany

Personal Exhibitions

1976 House of Artists, Moscow, USSR
1983 Vilnius, Lithuania
1984 Central House of Artists, Moscow, USSR
1990 Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalog)
1991 Painting and Sculpture. Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
Personal mythology. Gallery Erica Meerovich, San Francisco, USA
1992 Galerie Alex Lachmann, Cologne, Germany
General Instruction /Lev Rubinstein. Another name. State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, Moscow, Russia, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalog)
1993 Painting, drawing and sculpture. Struve Gallery, Chicago, USA
1994 Painting. Sculpture. Graphics. Linda Harris Gallery, Seattle, USA (catalog)
General instruction and other work. Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (catalog)
Metamorphoses. Gallery Meerovich. San Francisco, USA
1995 National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina (catalog)
Mythical images. Meerovich Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996 Revisions. Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (catalog)
1997 Birth of a hero. Gallery Andy Illinois, Zurich, Switzerland
1998 Life Is Everywhere. Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (catalog)
1999 Life is above all. Gallery Andy Illinois, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 Marlborough Gallery, Boca Raton, USA
2001 Life Is Everywhere. State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, Moscow and The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalog)

Selected Group Exhibitions

1966 Seventh Exhibition of Young Artists. House of Artists, Moscow, USSR
1987 Artist and Modernity. Showroom Kashirka Millionschikova Street, Moscow, USSR
Object. Exhibition hall at the Little Georgian Street, Moscow, USSR
Retrospective 1957-87. Exhibition Hall of the Hermitage on Profsoyuznaya Street, Moscow, USSR
1988 Ich lebe - Ich sehe. Kunstler der achtziger Jahre in Moskau. Art Museum of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (catalog)
Olympiad of Art. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (catalog)
Sowejetkunst heute. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (catalog)
Glasnost - Die neue Freiheit der sowjetischen Maler. Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (catalog)
Kunstdrachen: Bilderfurden Himmel. Art Museum of Miyagi Prefecture, Sendai, Japan (traveling exhibition: Japan - Europe, 1988-1992) (catalog)
1989 100 Years of Russian Art 1889-1989: From Private Collections in the USSR. Barbican Art Gallery, London, England (traveling exhibition: Great Britain - USSR) (directory)
Sculpture by Abakanowicz, Botero, Bruskin, Davies, Grooms, Mason. Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (catalog)
Von der Revolution zur Perestroika: Sowjetische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig. Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland - Palace Virreyna-Ahuntament, Barcelona, Spain - Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Etienne, France (catalog)
Recent Aquisitions. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Artists for Liberty, Berlin Wall. Foundation Pascal Jeandet. Paris-London-Madrid (catalog)
1989-92 Bilderfurden Himmel-Kunstdrachen. Palace of Arts, Munich, Germany - Great Hall of the Town Hall, Paris, France - Collection of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf, Germany - Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia - Deyhtor-Halle, Hamburg, Germany - Galust Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal - Museum Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium - National Gallery, Berlin, Germany - Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark, etc. (folder)
1990 Chagall to Kitaj. The Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art. Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (catalog)
1991 Artistas Rusos Contamporaneos. Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalog)
1992 On Paper. Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalog)
Diaspora. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1993 Drawing the Line Against AIDS. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy - The Guggenheim Museum in Soho, New York (catalog)
Von Malewitsch bis Kabakov. Russische Avantgarde im 20. Jahrundert. Collection of the Museum Ludwig. Josef Haubrih-Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany (catalog)
Post-modernism and tradition. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A la decouverte ... de collections romandes. Museum of Contemporary Art, Pully /Lausanne, Switzerland (catalog)
Eugora-Eugora. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel und Osteuropa. Art Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany
Fujisankel Biennale. Open-air Museum, Hakone, Japan (catalog)
1994-95 Itinere. Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalog)
1995 Reinventing the Emblem. Art Gallery of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (catalog)
Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change 1890-1990. Museum of Jewish Culture, New York (catalog)
From Gulag to Glasnost. Non-Conformist Art from the Soviet Union 1956-1986. Collection of Nancy and Norton Dodge. Art Museum Jane Vorhis Zimmerly, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (catalog)
Moscow: The Group. Heidi Nyuhoff Gallery, New York (catalog)
On Paper. Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalog)
Sculpture in the Little Forest. Ra'anana, Israel
1996 Nonconformisten. Die zweite Russische Avantgarde 1955-1988. Collection Bar-Gera. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Art Institute and Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany; Exhibition Hall of the Bavarian department of culture, Leverkusen, Germany, Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (catalog)
On Paper. Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalog)
Division of the latest trends: the first five years. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1997 Artistas Nao Conformistas da Uniao Sovietica. The Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Lisbon, Portugal (poster exhibition and catalog)
Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Palace of Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Contemporary Artists Welcome the New Year-The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commission. Museum of Jewish Culture, New York
1998-99 Forbidden Art. The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde. Art Center College of design, gallery Alice de Roulet Williamson, Pasadena, California, United States, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA (catalog)
1998 It's the Real Thing: Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art & American Pop Art. Wiseman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN (catalog)
1999 20th Century Sculpture. Nassau County Museum of Art, New York (catalog)
Artist's Book 1970-1990. From the collection of the State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin. Department of personal collections. Moscow, Russia (catalog)
Art Projects in the renovated Reichstag. Berlin, Germany
2000 L'arte vietata in U.R.S.S. 1955-1988. Non-conformisti dalla Collezione Bar-Gera. Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Forti, Verona (catalog)
Nonconformisten 1955-1988. Die Zweite Russische Avantgarde. Chronik. Bilder und Fotodokumente aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera. Merkishes-Museum of the city of Witten, Germany (catalog)
Eden Zion Utopia. Zur Geschichte der Zukunft im Judentum. The Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curator Werner Hanako (catalog)
Realizing Future. Museum of Jewish Culture, New York
L'Homme qui marche. De Rodin a Mimran. Sculptures. Palais Royal, Paris, France - Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Netherlands (catalog)
The New Wing for the Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union 1956-1986. Art Museum Jane Vorhis Zimmerly, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Art of 20 th century. The new permanent exhibition of contemporary Russian art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
American and Russian Nonconformist Art. Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
2000-01 Collection of Hans and Uschi Welle. Graphic study, including state museums of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2001-02 Das rote Haus. Zeitgenossische russische Kunst aus der Sammlung Bierfreund. City gallery Betingen-Bissingen; City Gallery Villa Zander, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
2001 Dumbo Double Deuce. New York & Russian Artists. Dumbo, New York, USA
Museums
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA
National Gallery of Art, Caracas, Venezuela
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Museum of Jewish Culture, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Maine, USA
State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, Moscow, Russia
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Rutgers University, Jane Vorhis Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

Direct speech

"I define a genre of his writings as" Notes of a collector. "For me important is the principle of the collection. Beetles, butterflies, rare items, sketches from memory - their existence is nonlinear, they can be regarded as anything, to read: if you want - from first to last, care - on the contrary, as you want - as you want. "

Prepositional case

Name Grisha Bruskin until 1988 there was little indication to the public, his paintings could only see their own, exhibitions have been banned.

Then, at the Moscow Sotheby's auction of his paintings, including "The fundamental vocabulary," were sold for a record for contemporary art prices - nearly $ 1 million.


Grisha Bruskin lives as if out of time, more precisely, over time - he looks at the past from the future, at present from the past.

C no matter what system he or plastic work, whether painting, drawing, monumental sculptures or small plaster figures, he writes like an anthology of mythological archetypes, calling their cycles "Lexicon", "Alphabet", "logy".

As a result, develops a kind of book, chapters which bear the names of its projects, Genesis, Genesis of civilization, from birth to death.

Prepositional case

Grigory Davidovich Bruskin, Muscovite 45-year birthday, Grisha Bruskin began many years ago. That's how he signed the first of which seemed to him self now. In Soviet times, life Bruskin was not happy: personal exhibition of the artist banned with an enviable constancy, and his work practice were not known to the public. But already in 1988, Grisha Bruskin was avenged with a vengeance for the previous neglect. Became known for its "fundamental vocabulary" (1986), where the figures, bearing the emblem of official Soviet culture, brought together at large tables.

In a subsequent work of the same principles of sots-art combined with elements of ironic Judaica. In the first and the last was held in Moscow, a Sotheby's auction of its 6 paintings - the most famous of these was "The fundamental hryushachy lexicon" - were sold for a record for contemporary Russian art prices (930 thousand dollars - it should agree that amount). A week later, Bruskin went to America - for cultural exchange, work, and immediately received several proposals to implement long-planned art projects.

In short, Bruskin lives in America today, his works are in major museums around the world, and he is considered one of the most famous Russian artists in the West.

In the early 80's, he molded a group of fifteen sculptures and called the work "The Birth of a hero. Having cast in bronze and wishing to draw parallels with the Soviet sculpture park, he painted them with white enamel. The thought of porcelain first came into his head when he saw the result, which resulted in further work on the "museum collection" of porcelain sculptures of "Life Is Everywhere". Then he invented the "children's" Porcelain "Primer", snovidcheskuyu series "The Edge" to "lovers of poetry", a set of "mystical" dishes "alefbet", "imperial" Fundamental Lexicon, "infinite plot noumenal dishes" Fragment ".

In 1999, Bruskin on the proposal of the German government represented Russia in a project to upgrade the Berlin Reichstag building: there are now adorn triptych Bruskin "Life is above all. Artist lives and works in New York.

[Евгений]

From the book reviews from the exhibition "Life Is Everywhere"
GMII in them. Pushkin.

Is very important, almost like forum ARTinvest. (EA)
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My dear man! Thank you for what you have described my life.
The old Skoblikova B.
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Primitive, a lot of untruth.
Moskvich
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I want to warn: this art is not safe.
Muscovite
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But honestly, how is it done?
Student Surikovsky Institute
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We, the pupils of school № 325 city Bykovo Moscow region, thanks to the artist for a fascinating journey into the world of forms and colors.

The pupils of school № 325
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Dear artist, looking forward to establishing the fundamental vocabulary of modern Russia and the world of reality. You can show the abyss of your wit and irony. We offer the following themes: 1. Money. 2. Goods. 3. Market. 4. Pop idols. 5. Sex. 6. Globalization.
7. Terrorism. 8. Postmodernism. 9. Americanism. 10. Rights of women. 11. Homosexuality. 12. AIDS. 13. Fundamentalism. 14. Al-Qaeda. 15. Drugs. 16. Prostitution. 17. Extortion. 18. Bribery. 19. Prihvatizatsiya. 20. Zhirinovtsy. 21. Putin. 22. Gaidar. 23. Berezovsky. 24. Gusinsky. 25. Abramovich. 26. Cloning ... And much more.

Tourists from the Urals
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Just no words ...

Becher
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And I have a word. Make (and quickly) work, where people would have been colored person. We're live!

R.
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Pity the lost time.

No signature
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Imagine what would you spend it!

Victor
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Frankly, I do not understand. Everything is so fast.

Maria M. 20 years. Height 162 cm a pretty smile
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Good morning, Grisha! Thank you for your wonderful texts. Especially in terms of language hooked a play on words "monument to the moment."

Ina Polyanskaya, sister
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Read these vulgar inscriptions - akin to masochism.

P. Sosnitsky England
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I believe that the man who thought up and put all this in life - a genius. And those who do not understand, cretins and fools.

MM, honored. Art. rep.
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What you honey, MM Clever, beautiful. Perhaps your name - Bruskin (!)

Observer
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Ruined you, Grisha, my mood. Mess up, distorted the beauty and nobility. You can not because we besot! And Americans are almost as dressed as Russian. Only, perhaps fashion their forestalled our years at 15-20. But Russia has always come out of this with honor. As our intelligent people: "We are ugly Soviet underwear won, but they (the Germans) in the beautiful lost the second world war." It's time nick down about it.

Kuvaldin NN Veteran. Retired colonel
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Say thanks to a Soviet soldier's boots, and then used a long time you kicked boots NATO soldier!

Leontiev, also an officer
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Dear Gregory! Maybe, if it were not for Stalin, you would have to cut a ribbon for beskozyrok.

Vypiraylo Sergei Alekseevich
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Hello, Misha! All that I saw on this show is astonishing, and leaves a deep imprint in the soul.

E. Uritsky, peers
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Why in our time taken in the great museums exhibit the aesthetic and spiritual poverty?

Artist. Member MOSKh
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Maybe if I had seen, had begun to think and develop. Health.

Signature illegible
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Knew would not come.

Zhdanov Vasily. Zhdanov
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Dear Grisha! We specifically met on your show. We all remember you young, beautiful boy with huge dark eyes.

Classmates (6 persons)
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Letter review. Citizen Bruskin! Immediately stop the longing build audiences.

NI Kuzmina 1946
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But really you, Kuzmina, NI, you sure Russia is not yet sniffed.

L.YU.G.
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I agree with Kuzmina.

Sevastopol
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It's me. Yachts already gone. Two one two, one, seven and not eight. All understood?

Fool-Vladimir from Lithuania
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Bruskin! When born? What nationality? Which language family think? What other languages own (Jewish, Belarusian, Russian, French or German)? It should be emphasized. He served on official business. See you later!

Name Member of the Military. KGB front. Participated in the battles Kr. Army against the Germans.
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Grisha, do not play the fool.

1-st half of the XXI century. Murmanchanka
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So what? Again!

Chicken Matilda Melnikova
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Hello, Grisha! I ate a bear somewhere in Siberia. Who would have thought! In frost we KATYA reindeer, sled slammed into a birch tree, deep in the snow are flying! I wish you happiness and success in school. I shake hands with serious intentions.

Geologist Modest
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He escaped fugitive like deer. He ran like a hare from the eagle.

An old acquaintance of Moses
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Grishanov. Salyutore!

Eliza Doolittle
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And I - a girl with a paddle.

Girl with an oar. Lol! (Joke of humor).
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Dear Gregory Davidovich! I give you the verses:

Let us die. Eco miracle!

It died before us.

Zhizn so beautiful and turbulent.

A death waiting for you every hour.

I have a rare name nowadays - Alevtina

There were chance encounters, where the common lot of all, were free speech and the sound of joyous laughter. We'll meet again?

P. Lost Dreams. Tel. 000-00-00 ext. 00
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Grisha, it's me, Lena. Remember? 1968, Yalta, restaurant "Mysterious East"? Call!

Telephone
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I guess: the next cycle of "America in the masks." Thanks.

Portnow, student MEI
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Through the laughter again creepy.

T. and L.
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Wow!

Student of the Theological Institute. Tatiana
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Dear Grisha Bruskin, you opened the semantic building blocks on which human life. This is the nail of our time.

Admirer of the exhibition and the reader reviews
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He laughs best who laughs last.

Ivanov AS Teacher
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Russia! Not Israel!

No signature
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Dear. Thank you for your excursion into the Jewish worldview. With respect to your Jewishness.

LV
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Bruskin (and Rubinstein, too) should be ashamed. But the money is better than a conscience, is not it, gentlemen?

Alekseev. Retiree
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Carefully inspected your exhibition. One thing is clear, your boss - the American dollar.

Elena B.
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Such daub not enter into eternity.

Wisher
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Everyone sees the world differently.

Rookie artist
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Keep it up!

Superintendent MLK
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A man must be a man, winter - the winter, and art - art!

Shapiro
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Arguments arguments, but beauty is eternal.

Xenia.
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[Glasha]

Interestingly, these reviews are real or in the processing Bruskin?

[fross]

Sergey Kozhevnikov have described the interview as a story now Bruskin, was not yet known, bought Sergei Bondarchuk brought home and hung on the wall. Irina Skobtseva categorically demanded to remove this filth from the house. A few years later their son accidentally saw this work in the auction catalog for quite mad price and showed his father. They say it is a long time after his wife did not talk.

Funny that at Sotheby's in 1988, now Bruskin "Fundamental Lexicon bought another directed by Milos Forman and presumably for 240 thousand pounds.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Gala

processing Bruskin?

Gala process them why he is the voice of the people, living for a new theme in the paintings kartiny.Teksty-based Sots Art ..

Сообщение от fross

Irina Skobtseva categorically demanded to remove this filth from the house.

Well, in this forum is not so miscall artists .. women that they take