Vinogradov and Dubosarskiy. Commissioned Painting. (2009)

A duet of Dubosarskiy and Vinogradov was formed by the middle of Nineties of the XX century. For the last 6 years the artists has risen from local celebrities to international fame. Their rightly chosen strategy permits them, being on the top of success, to be understood appropriately by Moscow and international critics. Both project participants graduated from the Surikov Academic Art Institute. Holding up Russian painting traditions, rather basing upon the Socialist realism principals, Dubosarskiy and Vinogradov restore the monumental thematic painting genre. They declare they work on commission, but their customer is often virtual and doesn't exist. They probably mean a notorious social order which try to guess the artists painting what the "common people" like. Within the order framework the artists operate ironically with the Mass cultural stereotypes, publicity images creating a new character which is positive and triumphant. Their vivid palette and incredible combinations of various, diversified characters on the canvas multiply the virtual order real admirers. A picturesque language of Dubosarskiy and Vinogradov like many modern art representatives's one is understood as a text, but unlike other texts in art - their text doesn't need to be decoded.