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Born 1957 Moscow, Russia. Known for: Painting; social realism; expressive figuration; critical cultural commentary.
Maxim Kantor was born in 1957 in Moscow and is a Russian-born painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer, essayist, and art historian. The son of philosopher Mikhail Kantor, he studied at the Moscow... Read full biography
Maxim Kantor was born in 1957 in Moscow and is a Russian-born painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer, essayist, and art historian. The son of philosopher Mikhail Kantor, he studied at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute and developed an independent artistic position outside any formal movement.... Read full biography
Maxim Kantor was born in 1957 in Moscow and is a Russian-born painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer, essayist, and art historian. The son of philosopher Mikhail Kantor, he studied at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute and developed an independent artistic position outside any formal movement. The central theme of his work is the analytical examination of Russian and Western society through historical, genre, and portrait imagery. Kantor’s art carries a distinctly social orientation rooted... Read full biography
Maxim Kantor was born in 1957 in Moscow and is a Russian-born painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer, essayist, and art historian. The son of philosopher Mikhail Kantor, he studied at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute and developed an independent artistic position outside any formal movement. The central theme of his work is the analytical examination of Russian and Western society through historical, genre, and portrait imagery. Kantor’s art carries a distinctly social orientation rooted in nineteenth-century Critical Realism. His expressive visual language is marked by displacements of form and intense contrasts of color, used to articulate the structures of modern social order and the forces that shape human fate. Already during... Read full biography
Maxim Kantor was born in 1957 in Moscow and is a Russian-born painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer, essayist, and art historian. The son of philosopher Mikhail Kantor, he studied at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute and developed an independent artistic position outside any formal movement. The central theme of his work is the analytical examination of Russian and Western society through historical, genre, and portrait imagery. Kantor’s art carries a distinctly social orientation rooted in nineteenth-century Critical Realism. His expressive visual language is marked by displacements of form and intense contrasts of color, used to articulate the structures of modern social order and the forces that shape human fate. Already during the Soviet era, Kantor became an observer of Russian society and a critic of its political system, a position he continued to develop in his... Read full biography
