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Russian Avant-Garde

Between abstraction, commitment and aesthetic ruptureBy Evgueny Kovtun

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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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1Introduction

36The Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh), 1927-1932, Moscow

2I. Art in the First Years of the Revolution

37The Union of Youth, 1910-1914, 1917-1919, St Petersburg — Petrograd

3‘Picasso, this is not the new art.’

38Nathan Altman (Vinnitsa, 1889 - Leningrad, 1970)

4The Spiritual Universe

39Yuri Annenkov (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, 1889 - Paris, 1974)

5The ROSTA Windows (Russian Telegraph Agency) of Petrograd

40Sergei Bulakovski (Odessa, 1880 - Kratovo, 1937)

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6The Sevodnia Artel

41Leon Bakst (Grodno, 1866 - Paris, 1924)

7The VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios]

42David Burliuk (Hamlet of Semirotovchtchina (now region of Kharkov), 1882 - Long Island, New York, 1967)

8Wassily Kandinsky

43Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985)

9The Struggle Against Gravity

44Alexander Shevchenko (Kharkov, 1883 - Moscow, 1948)

10The ‘Renaissance’ of Vitebsk

45Yuri Schukin (Voronej, 1904 - Moscow, 1935)

11II. Schools and Movements

46Maria Ender (St Petersburg, 1897 - Leningrad, 1942)

12The Institute of Artistic Culture

47Vera Ermolaeva (Petrovsk, 1893 - district of Karaganda, victim of Stalinist repression, 1938)

13The Additional Element

48Evguenija Evenbach (Krementchug, 1889 - Leningrad, 1981)

14Elena Guro

49Alexandra Exter (Belostok, 1882 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1949)

15The Signal for a Return to Nature

50Robert Rafailovich Falk (Moscow, 1886 - Moscow, 1958)

16The End of the INKhUK

51Pavel Filonov (Moscow, 1883 - Leningrad, 1941)

17Malevich’s Second Peasant Cycle

52Natalia Goncharova (Negayevo, 1881 - Paris, 1962)

18The Rebellion Against God

53Elena Guro (St Petersburg, 1877 - Uusikirkko, 1913)

19The National ‘Tone’ of Colour

54Lev Yudin (Vitebsk, 1903 - Leningrad, died on the front near Leningrad, 1941)

20Filonov and the Masters of Analytical Art

55Pyotr Kontchalovsky (Slaviansk, 1876 - Moscow, 1956)

21The Kalevala

56Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944)

22Artistic Groups in the 1920s

57Valentin Kurdov (Mikhailovskoie, 1905 - Leningrad, 1989)

23Sculpture, Porcelain and Textile Manufacture

58Mikhail Larionov (Tiraspol, 1881 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1964)

24The Avant-Garde Stopped in its Tracks

59Vladimir Lebedev (St Petersburg, 1891 - Leningrad, 1967)

25MAJOR ARTISTS

60Aristarkh Lentulov (Vorona, 1882 - Moscow, 1943)

26The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), (renamed in 1928 The Association of Artists of the Revolution - AKhRR), 1922-1932, Moscow - Leningrad

61Lazar Lissitzky, known as El-Lissitzky (Potchinok, 1890 - Moscow, 1941)

27Circle of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad

62Ilya Mashkov (Hamlet of Mikhailovskaya, now district of Ourioupinsk, region of Volgograd, 1881 - Moscow, 1944)

28The Masters of Analytical Art (MAI), 1925-1932, Leningrad

63Kazimir Malevich (Kiev, 1878 - Leningrad, 1935)

29The Makovets, 1921-1925, Moscow

64Mikhail Matiushin (Nijni-Novgorod, 1861 - Leningrad, 1934)

30The World of Art, 1898-1904, 1910-1924, St Petersburg - Moscow

65Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Khvalynsk, 1878 - Leningrad, 1939)

31Monolith, 1918-1922, Moscow

66Alexander Rodchenko (St Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956)

32The New Society of Painters (NOZh), 1921-1914, Moscow