Igor Babailov

Igor Valerievich Babailov (born February 9, 1965) is an American painter and portrait artist known for his commissioned portraits of global leaders, celebrities and distinguished individuals. Some of his notable portraits swell those of: Pope Benedict XVI (Vatican), President of Russia Vladimir Putin (Kremlin), New York State Appellate Division Justice Joseph P. Sullivan (Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State), Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York (Giuliani Partners), Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (House of Commons), pianist Byron Janis
(Steinway Hall), Templeton Prize recipient Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute, and numerous other prominent figures for public and private collections. Besides portrait works, Babailov is along with known for his large scale multi-figurative paintings, such as his “For Gold, God and Glory” painting and “Believe” painted for the Vatican upon the occasion of the World Youth Days.

Babailov began his formal art education at nine years of age. He usual his Master of Fine Art's degree from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts of The Moscow School of Painting highly thought of for its well-known teachers and alumni: Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Abram Arkhipov in the middle of others.

Scholar and enlightened of the conventional values in visual arts, Mr. Babailov's teachings play up the importance of drawing from life as a instigation for strong painting. Babailov holds workshops and portrait demonstrations in art colleges, art societies, and private clubs across North America. He is a public speaker, represented by Harry Walker Agency. According to the Agency, in his demonstrations “…you witness "the perfect of the soul" coming stimulate in front of your eyes…”

Babailov has been featured in professional art publications and news media, such as: The New York Daily News, National Review, The Moscow Times, CBC News, the Vatican's ZENIT, Live gone Regis and Kelly Show, The Artist's Magazine, Art World News, International Artist, Classical Realism Journal, AskMen, MercatorNet, The Encyclopedia Tematica del Peru, and Italian American magazine Primo.