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The group of non-French artists in Paris before and after the First World War included artists like Marc Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, Chaim Soutine, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Ossip Zadkin and Jac...
In the early twentieth century, Russian avant-garde art was exclusively correlated to the art of France. Even when Kazimir Malevich suggested not linking oneself to any one country or any art at all,...
The history of Russian video art began in 1985, when artist Andrey Monastyrsky asked Sabine Haensgen – a doctoral student from West Germany, who had gone to Russia to collect material for her PhD the...
At the turn of the century, the whole of Europe was swept by a wave of interest in primitive art. African and Asian folk art was discovered and aestheticized, and Russia was no exception. Unlike thei...
The Neoclassical Revival was one of the many original phenomena in the Russian art of the early twentieth century. At a time when daring avant-garde experiments with form and colour were very much in...
The “generation of the sixties” (??????????????) led the wave of Soviet nonconformist art in the 1960s.