Ilya Kabakov Quotes:
Ocupation: Visual Artist
Life: b. September 30, 1933
Birthday: September 30
A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.
source: "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com. 
topic: Art, Etc, Portraits, Mural
