Shereshevsky portrayed Putin as the Russian poet, playwright and prose writer Alexander Pushkin. The picture shows a man with Putin’s facial features, but with sideburns and a shirt, as well as a scarf around his neck – this is how the portrait artists showed Pushkin.
The Ukrainian artist briefly signed the caricature “Pu”, stamping the beginning of the names of the head of the Kremlin and the poet, whose monuments are located in Ukraine began to demolish after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Shereshevsky is 58 years old, lives and works in Kiev. The artist’s works are kept in museums and private collections in Ukraine, the United States, Israel, Greece, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Germany.
Shereshevsky is a well-known and recognizable artist, the newspaper wrote. “Other Kiev” in 2018, when he opened the exhibition of his works “Fresh on”.
“Prolific, sarcastic, picturesque, plays with texts and contexts. If painted, then generous, broad, hypertrophied. If the lyrics are signatures, then sharp – on the verge. If the lyrics, then a little boy in a bathing suit or a girl Tartar, provoking “The pin-up is juicier than that of the Americans. And this beauty, in fact, has no name. Because such a combination of picturesque, tragicomic and textual temperament does not fit into any door, it does not lend itself to classification as a whole phenomenon, ”he says in media reviews.
