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Maxim K Kantor

Maxim K. Kantor (Born 1957) is active/lives in Russian Federation.  Maxim Kantor is known for Modernist-leaning landscape and figure painting, etching.

Maxim Kantor is a Russian-born painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer, essayist, and art historian. He was born in Moscow in 1957 and never joined any group or movement, rather promulgating his own independent message. The major theme of the artist’s creative oeuvre is the analytical treatment of the condition of the Russian and Western society within the framework of the historical, genre, and portrait images. The evidently expressed social trend of Maxim Kantor’s art, that traces back to the tradition of the Critical realism of the 19th century, finds its embodiment in the expressive plastic language based on the dislodgements of the forms and intense contrast combinations of colors. In his paintings, Maxim Kantor aspires for visualization of the structure of the modern social world order and of the power that in evident or concealed form determines the human fates. Already during the Soviet era, he became an observer of Russian society and a critic of its political system. For years   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1086 characters.]  Artist bio

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