Background
Erik Bulatov was born on September 5, 1933 in Sverdlovsk, USSR (nowadays Yekaterinburg, Russia).
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Erik Bulatov was born on September 5, 1933 in Sverdlovsk, USSR (nowadays Yekaterinburg, Russia).
Initially, Bulatov was educated at Moscow Middle Art School. Some time later, he studied painting at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, graduating in 1958.
Bulatov began his career as a children’s book illustrator in 1959 at Detgiz. In the 1960s Bulatov formed the Sretensky Boulevard Group together with Ilya Kabakov, Edik Steinberg, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky and Viktor Pivovarov.
Beginning from 1963 to the end of the 1960s Erik Bulatov experimented with various modernist styles in painting and discovered his interest in analyzing the spatial, light and color qualities of the picture.
In the early 1970s Erik began to create large-scale paintings, addressing social themes and Soviet reality: he depicted slogans, inscriptions and posters.
Since 1989 the artist lived in New York and in 1992 he moved to Paris.
Only in 2003 his works were exhibited in Russia for the first time.
In 2015, Bulatov was invited to create large-scale canvases at the opening of a new building of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Erik Bulatov is renowned for his works in Socialist Art style. He is also one of the founders of "Sretensky Boulevard Group".
Bulatov's works are exhibited around the world, including the United States, Spain and Germany. Some of his works are also kept in the major public and private collections in Europe, Russia and United States.
Entering the Red Plane
Sky
My Tram is Departing
Freedom is Freedom
I'm Coming
Entrance - No Entrance
Where
Praise to CPSU
Perestrojka
Landscape
Clouds Grow
Self-Portrait
Automne, Boulevard Sebastopol
I Live - I See
Sky - Sea
Sky Horizon
Trademark
L'aeroport, L'attente
Natasha
Brezhnev, the Soviet Space
Not to be leaned on
Three Surfaces
Train
Horizon
Welcome!
The Black Tunnel
Le Retour
L'Ete
Skier
Our Time Has Come
My Bus is Departing
Aufbruch Aus Moskau
Danger
Unanimous
Perestroyka
New York
