THE BEST RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

The Best Russian Contemporary Artists (Art Index) is a list (unranked art rating) of artists from Russia and the Russian abroad, no older than 1960, compiled on the basis of indicators for evaluating achievements, popularity, creative activity of authors (titles, awards of artists, participation in exhibitions, fairs, auctions, mention in art -ratings, the presence of works in museum collections, etc.).

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The Art Index (AIx, The Best Russian Contemporary Artists) is a list (unranked art rating) of artists from Russia and the Russian abroad, no older than 1960, compiled on the basis of indicators for evaluating achievements, popularity, creative activity of authors, and expert recommendations.
It is aimed primarily at collectors and all connoisseurs of contemporary art.

Tarusov Andrey

1986

About

Andrey Tarusov included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Andrey Tarusov – an artist, who became famous, first in Russia, then in America, for his being able to create amazingly beautiful women. In his creative experience, there is cooperation with Disney, Fox and even Playboy. Being an illustrator in pin-up style, Andrey managed to gain popularity in 2012, when his first calendar «Apocalypse Tomorrow» was published while people were discussing the end of the world. The second wave of popularity was in the end of 2013 with publication of «Olympic calendar 2014». He can make sexual anybody: even Shapoklyak or Freken Bok from Soviet cartoons. The catching imagination pin-up is his crowning style, but Tarasov is trying out with drawings and topics playfully. But, he admits that he will never part with seductive pretty women.