Kirill Konstantinovich Sokolov (Кирилл Константинович Соколов, 27 September 1930 – 22 May 2004) was a Russian artist who worked in a range of media and form, from book illustration and

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oil painting Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on coppe ...

collage Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pasti ...

and

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

. Between 1950 and 1957 Sokolov studied at the Surikov Institute in

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. Amongst his classmates was the future conceptual artist

Ilya Kabakov Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Ukrainian: Ілля Йосипович Кабаков; Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в; September 30, 1933 – May 27, 2023) was an American and Soviet conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetr ...

.http://www.henrydyson.co.uk/artists/sokolov/index.php In 1960 he met his future wife, Avril Pyman, a British research student and biographer of

Alexander Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok ( rus, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok, a=Ru-Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Blok.oga; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publ ...

. The couple married in Moscow in 1963. For the next ten years he gained distinction as a highly original engraver and illustrator of some fifty books, including the works of

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( ; rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel ''The M ...

and

Yuri Trifonov Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Childhood and family Trifonov w ...

. In 1974 Sokolov moved to the

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from where he established an international reputation. Living first in

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and then

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, he coedited the international art journal '' Leonardo'' and became a member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art. During his career, Sokolov developed his own method of printmaking, which he called "silkscreen collage". Using this technique he created dozens of folios on themes such as "London 1984" (just as much a tribute to Dore's "London a Pilgrimage" as to a reflection on British society after Orwell), "Big Meeting" (a reflection on the Durham Miners' Gala), "Chester-le-Street Parish Church" (a series celebrating the 1100th anniversary of the Parish Church of St. Mary & St. Cuthbert) and many others.

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Biographical timeline of the life and work of Kirill Sokolov
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sokolov, Kirill Russian male artists 1930 births 2004 deaths