ALEXANDR CHULKOV
Something About

Alexandr Chulkov

Alexandr Chulkov was born in 1962 in the city of Lvov in
Western Ukraine. Soon after his family moved to
Ivano-Frankovsk - another provincial city in the same part of
country which bears a heavy influence of the recent past. Before
World War II, both cities were a part of Poland and young artists
from a very tender age were exposed to the different cultures and
traditions. First of all, but not entirely, to the Russian, Ukrainian
and Polish tradition. The intellectual awareness of his
cosmopolitan roots came to Alexandr Chulkov much later, after
he began experimenting with different styles, trends and manners.
Nowadays, people who look at his work can hardly believe that
all the paintings are from the one artist. The artist himself believes
that he was influenced by French modernists of the early 20th
century and by the Japanese and Mexican cultures. His gracious
and powerful drawings can be compared with the drawings of
Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani. His work is quickly
recognizable. His women are sensual and desirable. Their bodies
are unpridictable and beautiful. Me mastered nude colours which
multiply these perceptions. When it comes to other subjects,
Alexandr employs entirely different combinations of primary and
complementary colours where his hand is obvious and his
compositions are sophisticated. Since 1997 Alexandr Chulkov
and his wife Tatiana live in Prague in the Czech Republic where
they are successfully running their own gallery ARTTERRA
International, sïtuated in a beautiful place close to the Prague
Castle. Alexandr fell in love with Prague the beuties of which
found the way into his paintings. Since 1985 Alexandr Chulkov
has participated many art shows mainly in Moscow and Ukraine.
Many of his paintings are included in private collections in Russia,
Ukraine, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, the U.S.A., France,
Japan, Poland, Austria, Sweden and number of other countries.
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