Igor Tulpanov - Artist Info

About Igor Tulpanov

Name variants

Igor Tiulpanov, Igor Tulipanov, Igor Vissarionovich Tyulpanov
  • Biography

    Igor Tulipanov is a Russian-American painter born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1939. Since May, 1979, he has lived and worked in the United States. Igor is married to Elena Tulipanov, also a painter. He employs Surrealist imagery in his meticulous illusionistic paintings, incorporating stylistic elements from Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, and Jan van Eyck. These paintings are pictorial retracings of the artist's subconscious and show characteristics of what Freud called "dream work," including the existence of contrary elements side by side, the condensation of two or more objects or images, and the use of objects that have symbolic value.

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