Vladimir Yankilevsky

Vladimir Borisovich Yankilevsky was a Russian artist known mostly for his participation in the Soviet nonconformist art movement of the 1960s through the 1980s. Perhaps his most famous works are his triptychs, which use disorienting, often nightmarish imagery to represent restrictive mental states associated with daily life in the Soviet Union, and with the human condition in general. He also participated in the Manezh Art Exhibit of 1962, during which Nikita Khrushchev chastised the nonconformist art movement as degenerate.