Crazy Russian Artist.

Oh yeah. I finally figured out how to spell his guy's name and ordered his documentary off Amazon (thanks Julie!) This is what Wikipedia has to say:

"Vasya is an Andrei Zagdansky 2002 feature documentary about Russian underground artist Vasily Sitnikov,who was declared insane in early 1940’s by the Soviet authorities. A man without a passport, in and out of mental asylums, he was the key and often “larger than life” figure of the nonconformist art movement in the Soviet Union. Vasya interweaves passionate and often conflicting personal accounts of those who knew Vasily Sitnikov with short animated sequences depicting some of the most incredulous stories told."

I can't wait. Andrei Medvedev, the artist I met last March in Moscow, told me all about his teacher-- Vasily Sitnikov. He collected broken umbrellas he found on the streets and kept all his cash in them.

I'm posting a few of Andrei Medvedev's pieces so you can see how amazing his angels are. :)