Kukryniksy

Kukryniksy is a pseudonym for connecting three painters. The name is composed of the initial syllables of the names of Mikhail Kupriyanov and Porfiriy Krylov, including the capital letters of the name […]

During the Great Patriotic War, the artistic group worked on several paintings. The works are especially tragic, conveying some part of the story, the atmosphere of fear of those times. “Tanya” is […]

Kukryniks’s painting “The End” was written in 1947-1948 and is considered to be the highest achievement in painting by a famous creative team whose art developed extensively during the Soviet era, starting […]