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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...