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Remembering Erik Bulatov, the Soviet artist who reframed propaganda

Erik Bulatov used Communist slogans over luminous landscapes, creating ambiguous works that allowed public display despite Soviet and later Russian censorship.

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Remembering Erik Bulatov, Kazuki Motoyama, and Ken Parker

He was a leading figure of the Soviet pop art scene, founding the Moscow Conceptualists, which opposed official government art, as well as the Sots art movement, which remixed Soviet slogans. In 2015, he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. "I have been working on connecting the space of the painting with the space of our life," he said in a 2017 interview.

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Remembering Erik Bulatov, the Soviet artist who reframed propaganda

Remembering Erik Bulatov, Kazuki Motoyama, and Ken Parker

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