ABSOLUTIZM 

The book have been made at a Color Group Print House located in Hawthorn, NY. The book 

12"x12" in a hard leathered cover, 1000 copies printed on high quality 100 lbs. weight paper. The paintings for the book have been carefully selected from the best works of Igor Tulipanov 

Igor Tulipanov's paintings are always pleasant to look at; there are never any horrible images, nor are there images of horror. The viewer is able to enjoy each painting for the color, the cleverness of composition, the beauty of the draftsmanship and patterning and for the originality and perplexities of the subject matter and imagery. Tulipanov's imagery contains surprising juxtapositions, humor, familiarity, mysteriousness and a wide variety of objects and characters drawn from the artist's vast knowledge of art history, architecture and the world around him. The artist draws imagery and personages from various cultures such as Western civilization, Japanese, Chinese, Egyptian, Russian and Greco-Roman. However, Tulipanov always incorporates these images into his own personal vision and never merely copies them. Absolutism - the ultimate, all embracing, unconditioned reality, postulated by certain idealist metaphysicians, and understood to have something like the explanatory power of God. Seemingly organic and conscious, though impersonal, it was also conceived as a diversity-in ­unity. It generates, contains, and transmutes into a higher synthesis the fragmentariness, diversity and contradictions of finite existence. This definition which is taken from the glossary of a book of philosophy is written verbatim in Igor Tulipanov's Mozart and Mona Lisa panel from his Magnificent 47 Series. Absolutism tells us that an object does not have to palpably exist in physical reality in order to actually exist.