Vladimir Titov was born in 1950 in Moscow. He has lived in Paris since 1982 and continues to work in Moscow and Paris. The influence of both cities is evident in his paintings, which are both expressionist and impressionist, and derisive and humorous without seeming aggressive.

Vladimir Titov learned from the legendary nonconformal painter Vasily Sitnikov and gets many topics of his paintings from the social environment of the city outskirts, slums, back streets, his heroes are the outcast inhabitants of the megalopolis. But his art is not the continuation of the descriptive-genre painting, that was traditional for the Russian art, it is not one of the soc-art trends. Highlighting the realm of shadows i...