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The art of the 1970s and 1980s is represented by such important movements as the Moscow version of Pop Art in the works of Mikhail Roginsky, Mikhail Chernyshov and Boris Turetsky, Conceptualism and S...
After the death of Stalin in 1953, political change came to the Soviet Union. Censorship remained in force and artistic themes and means of expression were still controlled by the Party. This period,...
The post-revolutionary wave of artists attempted to retain some formal freedom. They painted pictures thematically corresponding to the spirit of the new age, yet lying within the stylistic framework...
Forced to emigrate in the aftermath of the 1917 revolurion, many Russian artists made a major contribution to the École de Paris. Many of them, such as Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova, contri...
Abstraction has long been acknowledged to be one of the key concepts in twentieth-century art. The artists of the Russian avant-garde, above all Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich, made a leading...
“Constructivism” is often mistakenly employed outside Russia as a synonym for all Soviet avant-garde architecture of the 1920s. Strictly speaking, the term only applies to the activities of one profe...
Pavel Filonov created his own theory of analytical art and headed its school. Filonov’s oeuvre followed the laws of nature. The artist believed that a picture should be created in the same manner as ...
Mikhail Matiushin ensured his place in the history of Russian art when he wrote the music for the revolutionary opera Victory Over the Sun . Victory Over the Sun destroyed all classical notions about...
In the 1900s and early 1910s, Russian artists were rapidly assimilating the French, Italian and Spanish variations of Cubism and Futurism. These movements took root in phenomena of an entirely differ...
The first trace of Rayonism can be found in Mikhail Larionov's illustrations to Alexei Kruchenykh's pamphlet Old-Time Love, published in the middle of October 1912. After this, Larionov contributed R...