Chagall to Malevich: The Russian Avant-Gardes

The Russian Avant-Garde, which brought about an artistic revolution between 1905 and 1934, represents one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of 20th-century art. Artists like Malevich, Kandinsky and Chagall are highly esteemed the world over. But this movement was much more diverse than is generally realised. For the first time this artistic wealth is being presented in a major sequence of pictures. 130 masterpieces of painting demonstrate the parallel development of widely different styles, design principles and aesthetic ideas. The avant-garde artists influenced each other and were sometimes in conflict with each other. At the same time you could find advocates of representational Expressionism and supporters of pure abstraction; styles like Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism followed each other in succession. Surprising contrasts of works visualize the differences, so that the successive conflicting –isms are clearly demonstrated. Through this visual confrontation the picture of all the many different forms of Russian avant-garde come alive. Artists: Nathan Altman Mark Antokolsky Marc Chagall Nikolai Dormidontov Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaya Alexandra Exter Pavel Filonov Natlai Goncharova Boris Grigoriev Alexei Jawlensky Vasily Kandinsky Arthur Klettenberg Ivan Klyun Vasily Kuptsov Mikhail Larionov Vladimir Lebedev Aristarkh Lentulov El Lissitzky Vladimir Malagis Kazimir Malevich Sergei Merkurov Semion Pavlov Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Lyubov Popova Ivan Puni Alexander Rodchenko Olga Rozanova Konstantin Rozhdestvensky Béatrice Sandomirskaya Zinaida Serebriakova Wladyslaw Strzeminski Nikolai Suetin Vladimir Tatlin Yury Vasnetsov Mikhail Vexler Konstantin Yuon

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