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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...
In December 1910, a group of artists held an exhibition in Moscow with the strange sounding name of the Knave of Diamonds (???????? ?????). The name was deliberately intended by one of the organisers...
The Futurist movement was officially launched by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Italy in 1909. The phrase "the art of the future" first appeared in the Russian press in 1908, a year before the official...
Kazimir Malevich came to his personal revelation of Suprematism via Impressionism, Cubism and Cubo-Futurism. Malevich’s relatively short career – slightly more than two decades – was incredibly rich ...