Wer ist eigentlich dieser Picasso?

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Oleg Vassiliev (born 1931 in Moscow) is a Russian painter. Vassiliev emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York in 1990 and currently lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota. Vassiliev graduated from V.I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow, in 1958. In the late 1950s he became influenced by the Russian avant-garde formalists, Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964), Robert Falk (1886-1958), and A.V. Fonvizin (1882-1973). From the 1950s through the 1980s, Vassiliev worked with friend and collaborator Erik Bulatov as a children''s book illustrator. They developed a unique style of illustration that combined realist painting with graphic elements, such as text. This "official" source of income provided the means and materials for Vassiliev to take part in the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement, also known as "unofficial" or "dissident" art. Along with friends, Ilya Kabakov, Bulatov and Victor Pivovarov, Vassiliev belonged to a large group of Soviet artists that took advantage of the Khrushchev "thaw" in official policy that opened up the Soviet Union to Western culture in the years following Stalin''s death in 1953.