The last time we saw art like this, Stalin was its centrepiece.
The resent work by Andrei Budaev shows the giant Putin being lionised by, among other heroes, the genocidal Hafez al-Assad of Syria and the Belarus kleptocrat Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko.
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Embarrassing but rather enlighting. Heil Putin!
This is one of a series of satirical works/portraits of Andrei Budaev about Putin (do a Google search – some of them are much harsher than this one). The artist is not, quite, lionizing his subject.
It’s meant to be ironic by the painter, right?
Indeed a reasonable assumption but since this post came out of the blue, without context, or link… At least, it’s not as ridiculous as Nobel Peace Prize and Obama or EU side by side!
It’s satire. You can see a lot more of the artist’s Putin-based work here:
http://freeyork.org/creative-2/putin-in-the-political-satire-series-of-andrei-budaev
Thank you for the link! Priceless is the image staging EU leaders, NATO’s Rasmussen with the Ukrainians or Nuland’s euro-Maidan! Hence the title of this post is misleading; Budaev’s work is satirical, targets many and is not any socialist realism apology of Putin. Vlaaaam!
Turchev this is not
ridiculous, it is funny, it is a dazzling
take off on russian muzhik culture.I
was looking for the Russian Army chorus in this but suppose they are off
entertaining the troops in the Ukraine .
Did you read my second comment? Na… Oh well. What’s beyond ridiculous is trying to pass this brilliant work for “socialist realism” through claims such as “The last time we saw art like this, Stalin was its centrepiece” and providing no context… But I bet this doesn’t bother you.
Why does this blog need one of Putin’s internet soldiers contributing bullshit like that one of Mr. Turchev?
Obviously Mr. Martin can’t take it when I pointed out that Budaev’s art dishes it out to ALL sides…
With all due respect – art criticism is not your forte, Mr. Lebrecht. Neither is politics. If you fail to sense wry humor (satire if you will) in this work, perhaps you would be better off talking about Ms.Wang dress length or Ms. Evancho vocal prowess – either one is so minuscule that it requires an expert to point it out.
Or, what about giving us your educated opinion on children choruses across US and Canada engaging in a perpetual oda performance to glorious Noble Prize Winner. Perhaps bring the worthy tradition over to UK? It would make for spectacular Proms sing-along as British bombs rain on Mideast once again.
“Ode of the Obama Youth!”: http://youtu.be/08BAfKCfu74
100% agreed!
Surely, someone is currently composing “An Ode to Our Mighty President’s Steel Pectoral Muscles,” for tenor, bass, chorus, and orchestra.
I heard that commission had already gone to James McMillan? 🙂
It seems that the work being more than an
embarrassment ,to save face Lenotchka and the 100% agreed
travel agent have decided to call it satire …which would have landed the
creator of this work in a KGB jail faster
than you could say Putin had it been
viewed as such. Whatever
it is , it certainly is not art of any type
but it seems to suit the Russian taste.