Kirill Sokolov

Kirill Sokolov (27 September 1930 – 22 May 2004) was a Russian painter, sculptor, print-maker and stage designer. Name in Russian: Кирилл Соколов.

Throughout his career, Kirill Sokolov's work and art enjoyed a wide range of media and art forms, from books illustrations and silk-screen printing to oil painting, collage and sculpture.[1]

Between 1950 and 1957 Sokolov studied at the Surikov Institute in Moscow. Amongst his classmates was the future conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov.[2] In 1960 Sokolov met his future wife, Avril Pyman, a British research student and biographer of Alexander Blok. The couple married in Moscow in 1963. For the next ten years Sokolov gained distinction as a highly original engraver and illustrator of some fifty books, including the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and Yuri Trifonov.[3]

In 1974 Sokolov moved to the United Kingdom from where he established an international reputation.[4] Living first in Berwick-upon-Tweed and then Durham, the artist served as co-editor of the international art journal Leonardo as well as becoming a member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art.[5]

During his career, Sokolov developed his own method of printmaking which he called 'silkscreen collage', the results of which include a tribute to George Orwell, London 1984, and have been exhibited widely.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.scotlandrussiaforum.org/exhibitions.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.henrydyson.co.uk/artists/sokolov/index.php
  3. ↑ http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dlatane/stand-maga/V_6(3)/sokolov_obituary_6(3).html
  4. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/jun/02/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
  5. ↑ http://www.scotlandrussiaforum.org/exhibitions.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/jun/02/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

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