
Russian Avant-Garde
Between abstraction, commitment and aesthetic ruptureBy Evgueny KovtunLength3h 22m
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The Russian Avant-garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia. The intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic constraints of the past. It was these Avant-garde artists who, through their immense creativity, gave birth to abstract art, thereby elevating Russian culture to a modern level.
Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevich, Goncharova, Larionov, and Tatlin, to name but a few, had a definitive impact on 20th-century art.
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Publish dateMay 10, 2014
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Table of contents
1Introduction
2I. Art in the First Years of the Revolution
3‘Picasso, this is not the new art.’
4The Spiritual Universe
5The ROSTA Windows (Russian Telegraph Agency) of Petrograd
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6The Sevodnia Artel
7The VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios]
8Wassily Kandinsky
9The Struggle Against Gravity
10The ‘Renaissance’ of Vitebsk
11II. Schools and Movements
12The Institute of Artistic Culture
13The Additional Element
14Elena Guro
15The Signal for a Return to Nature
16The End of the INKhUK
17Malevich’s Second Peasant Cycle
18The Rebellion Against God
19The National ‘Tone’ of Colour
20Filonov and the Masters of Analytical Art
21The Kalevala
22Artistic Groups in the 1920s
23Sculpture, Porcelain and Textile Manufacture
24The Avant-Garde Stopped in its Tracks
25MAJOR ARTISTS
26The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), (renamed in 1928 The Association of Artists of the Revolution - AKhRR), 1922-1932, Moscow - Leningrad
27Circle of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad
28The Masters of Analytical Art (MAI), 1925-1932, Leningrad
29The Makovets, 1921-1925, Moscow
30The World of Art, 1898-1904, 1910-1924, St Petersburg - Moscow
31Monolith, 1918-1922, Moscow
32The New Society of Painters (NOZh), 1921-1914, Moscow
33Oktiabr (including the group Molodoi Oktiabr), 1930-1932, Moscow — Leningrad
34Painters of Moscow, 1924-1926, Moscow
35The Four Arts Society of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad — Moscow
36The Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh), 1927-1932, Moscow
37The Union of Youth, 1910-1914, 1917-1919, St Petersburg — Petrograd
38Nathan Altman (Vinnitsa, 1889 - Leningrad, 1970)
39Yuri Annenkov (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, 1889 - Paris, 1974)
40Sergei Bulakovski (Odessa, 1880 - Kratovo, 1937)
41Leon Bakst (Grodno, 1866 - Paris, 1924)
42David Burliuk (Hamlet of Semirotovchtchina (now region of Kharkov), 1882 - Long Island, New York, 1967)
43Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985)
44Alexander Shevchenko (Kharkov, 1883 - Moscow, 1948)
45Yuri Schukin (Voronej, 1904 - Moscow, 1935)
46Maria Ender (St Petersburg, 1897 - Leningrad, 1942)
47Vera Ermolaeva (Petrovsk, 1893 - district of Karaganda, victim of Stalinist repression, 1938)
48Evguenija Evenbach (Krementchug, 1889 - Leningrad, 1981)
49Alexandra Exter (Belostok, 1882 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1949)
50Robert Rafailovich Falk (Moscow, 1886 - Moscow, 1958)