Russian Avant-Garde电子书

I. Art in the First Years of the Revolution

‘Picasso, this is not the new art.’

The Spiritual Universe

The ROSTA Windows (Russian Telegraph Agency) of Petrograd

The Sevodnia Artel

The VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios]

Wassily Kandinsky

The Struggle Against Gravity

The ‘Renaissance’ of Vitebsk

II. Schools and Movements

The Institute of Artistic Culture

The Additional Element

Elena Guro

The Signal for a Return to Nature

The End of the INKhUK

Malevich’s Second Peasant Cycle

The Rebellion Against God

The National ‘Tone’ of Colour

Filonov and the Masters of Analytical Art

The Kalevala

Artistic Groups in the 1920s

Sculpture, Porcelain and Textile Manufacture

The Avant-Garde Stopped in its Tracks

MAJOR ARTISTS

The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), (renamed in 1928 The Association of Artists of the Revolution - AKhRR), 1922-1932, Moscow - Leningrad

Circle of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad

The Masters of Analytical Art (MAI), 1925-1932, Leningrad

The Makovets, 1921-1925, Moscow

The World of Art, 1898-1904, 1910-1924, St Petersburg - Moscow

Monolith, 1918-1922, Moscow

The New Society of Painters (NOZh), 1921-1914, Moscow

Oktiabr (including the group Molodoi Oktiabr), 1930-1932, Moscow — Leningrad

Painters of Moscow, 1924-1926, Moscow

The Four Arts Society of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad — Moscow

The Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh), 1927-1932, Moscow

The Union of Youth, 1910-1914, 1917-1919, St Petersburg — Petrograd

Nathan Altman (Vinnitsa, 1889 - Leningrad, 1970)

Yuri Annenkov (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, 1889 - Paris, 1974)

Sergei Bulakovski (Odessa, 1880 - Kratovo, 1937)

Leon Bakst (Grodno, 1866 - Paris, 1924)

David Burliuk (Hamlet of Semirotovchtchina (now region of Kharkov), 1882 - Long Island, New York, 1967)

Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985)

Alexander Shevchenko (Kharkov, 1883 - Moscow, 1948)

Yuri Schukin (Voronej, 1904 - Moscow, 1935)

Maria Ender (St Petersburg, 1897 - Leningrad, 1942)

Vera Ermolaeva (Petrovsk, 1893 - district of Karaganda, victim of Stalinist repression, 1938)

Evguenija Evenbach (Krementchug, 1889 - Leningrad, 1981)

Alexandra Exter (Belostok, 1882 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1949)

Robert Rafailovich Falk (Moscow, 1886 - Moscow, 1958)

Pavel Filonov (Moscow, 1883 - Leningrad, 1941)

Natalia Goncharova (Negayevo, 1881 - Paris, 1962)

Elena Guro (St Petersburg, 1877 - Uusikirkko, 1913)

Lev Yudin (Vitebsk, 1903 - Leningrad, died on the front near Leningrad, 1941)

Pyotr Kontchalovsky (Slaviansk, 1876 - Moscow, 1956)

Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944)

Valentin Kurdov (Mikhailovskoie, 1905 - Leningrad, 1989)

Mikhail Larionov (Tiraspol, 1881 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1964)

Vladimir Lebedev (St Petersburg, 1891 - Leningrad, 1967)

Aristarkh Lentulov (Vorona, 1882 - Moscow, 1943)

Lazar Lissitzky, known as El-Lissitzky (Potchinok, 1890 - Moscow, 1941)

Ilya Mashkov (Hamlet of Mikhailovskaya, now district of Ourioupinsk, region of Volgograd, 1881 - Moscow, 1944)

Kazimir Malevich (Kiev, 1878 - Leningrad, 1935)

Mikhail Matiushin (Nijni-Novgorod, 1861 - Leningrad, 1934)

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Khvalynsk, 1878 - Leningrad, 1939)

Alexander Rodchenko (St Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956)

Mikhail Sokolov (Yarloslavl, 1885 - Moscow, 1947)

Nikolai Suetin (Miatlevskaya, 1897 - Leningrad, 1954)

Vladimir Tatlin (Moscow, 1885 - Moscow, 1953)

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