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The collection of Russian Avant-garde painting of 1910-1920s is one
of the most interesting and comprehensive in Ekaterinburg museum oft
Fine Arts.
In 1936 when the museum was founded
quite a big collection of avant-garde painting was passed to it. Those
pictures had been brought from the permanent exhibition of avant-garde
artists and then presented to Ekaterinburg in 1920. The exhibition
displayed all the main trends in modern painting. Thus, the capital
of the Urals acquired a unique collection of Russian artistic avant-garde
of the early20th century. It includes works by famous artists, the
founders of the way and of less known or forgotten authors.
The burst of Russian avant-garde in
Russian painting in the beginning of the century brought to the appearance
of numerous innovations and newest tendencies. Sometimes, they were
similar in their attitudes, sometimes belonged to the opposite ways.
Although each artist tried to find his own, individual way to overcome
traditional plastic-painting system, there was something common, what
united their difficult, inconsistent and multi-component whole, called
Russian Avantgardism, the eminent phenomenon in the history of world
culture. And that, what united all the artists was the basic creative
principle laying on the emancipation of artistic form from the content,
on the release of artistic means from the dictate of model. However,
the degree of abstraction from the reality could be different - from
partial to absolute, from hardly seen modifications and shifts in
primitivism, cubism, expressionism to a complete refusal from it,
which rose all kinds of pointless painting. Making the leader familiar
with folkloristic pop print an sign fancies of the Moscow Cesannists,
the-jack-of-diamonds painters I. Mashkov, A. Kuprin,
P. Konchalovskiy, with neoprimitivistic rural and urban genres
by N. Goncharova, and M. Larionov with expressive
and energetic circus entertainment by V. Bekhteyev, with
abstract improvisations by V. Kandinskiy and suprematist’s
compositions by K. Malevich, O. Rozanova,
S. Senkin with colour constructions from geometric forms
by I. Klyun, etc. This collection of Russian avant-garde
of 1910-1920s revives one of the most interesting layer of the national
art, It makes visual the life of Russia in those truly remarkable
years. |
Russian
Avant-garde. Painting
