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1925 In Fine Arts Of The Soviet Union
The year 1925 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts. Events * The Institute of Art Culture is transformed into the State Institute of Art Culture (GinKhuK). Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and Mikhail Matyshin work as a heads of its experimental studios. * February 8 — The VII Exhibition of ''AKhRR'' named «Revolution, the everyday life and work» was opened in Moscow in the Pushkin Museum. Exhibited 375 works of painting and sculpture of 122 authors. The participants were Mikhail Avilov, Abram Arkhipov, Mikhail Bobyshov, Isaak Brodsky, Alexander Vakhrameev, Mitrofan Grekov, Nikolai Dormidontov, Yuly Klever, Piotr Kotov, Boris Kustodiev, Rudolf Frentz, and other important Russian artists. * March 8 — The Exhibition «Woman in Russian painting» was opened in Moscow in Tretyakov gallery. The participants were Abram Arkhipov, Victor Vasnetsov, Alexander Golovin, Anna Golubkina, Natalia Goncharova, Boris Grigoriev, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Golovin (artist)
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin (russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Голови́н, ; – 17 April 1930) was a Russian artist and stage designer. He designed productions for Sergei Diaghilev, Constantin Stanislavski, and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Born at Moscow, Golovin initially studied architecture, later switching to painting. He also attended the Académie Colarossi. Due to financial difficulties, upon graduation he worked as an interior painter and decorator. He also tried his hand at various artistic fields such as furniture design. In 1900 he took part in designing the Russian Empire pavilion at the Paris World's Fair together with his friend K.A. Korovin. He studied at the Académie Vitti in Paris. In 1901 he moved to the Saint Petersburg region from Moscow. It was here that he came into his own as a stage designer, combining symbolism and modernism on operatic and dramatic productions for Diaghilev, Meyerhold and others. After the Revolution of 1917, Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Art
The year 2004 in art involved some significant events and new art works. Events *April – A Belgian activist group cuts off the left hand of a bronze Congolese figure in a monument to Leopold II of Belgium in Ostend as a protest against colonial atrocities. *24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists. * 18 July – The subterranean Chichu Art Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima, designed by Tadao Ando, opens. * 11 December – İstanbul Modern (art museum) is established in Turkey. The country's first modern art museum, the Doğançay Museum, opened earlier in the year, also in Istanbul; it is dedicated to the artistic legacy of Burhan Doğançay. Works *David Backhouse – ''Animals in War Memorial'' (London) *Banksy – ''Di-faced Tenner'' (multiple copies) *Bruce Beasley – ''Encounter'' (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon) *Lucian Freud – '' The Brigadier'' (po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslav Krestovsky
Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky (russian: Яросла́в И́горевич Кресто́вский, February 9, 1925, Leningrad, USSR – 2003, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg, regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Krestovsky was born February 9, 1925, in Leningrad, USSR in family of well-known Leningrad sculptor Igor Krestovsky (1894—1976; see also: Портрет скульптора Игоря Крестовского), a professor of the Ilya Repin Institute. Yaroslav Krestovsky is a grandson of the famous Russian prose-writer Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840—1895), the author of the novel ''"The Slums of Saint Petersburg"'' (1864). From 1937 till 1941 Yaroslav was studied at the Leningrad Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Arts. His teachers were Konstantyn Lepilov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Mikhail Nata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Filonov
Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov ( rus, Па́вел Никола́евич Фило́нов, p=ˈpavʲɪl nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ fʲɪˈlonəf, a=Pavyel Nikolayevich Filonov.ru.vorb.oga; January 8, 1883 – December 3, 1941) was a Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet. Biography Filonov was born in Moscow on January 8, 1883 (Gregorian calendar) or December 27, 1882 (Julian calendar). In 1897, he moved to Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, where he took art lessons. In 1908, he entered Imperial Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, from which, he was expelled in 1910. In 1910–1914, he took part in the arts group Soyuz Molodyozhi created by artists Elena Guro and Mikhail Matyushin. In 1912, he wrote the article ''The Canon and the Law'', in which, he formulated the principles of analytical art, analytical realism, or "anti-Cubism". According to Filonov, Cubism represents objects using elements of their surface geometry but "analytical realists" sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinaida Serebriakova
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (russian: Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова; – 20 September 1967) was a Russian and later French painter. Family Zinaida Serebryakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into the artistic Benois family in the Russian Empire. Her father, Evgenii Lansere, was a sculptor and her mother, Ekaterina Lansere, was a painter. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a prominent architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a painter, founder of the ''Mir iskusstva'' art group. One of Zinaida's brothers, Nikolay Lanceray, was an architect, and her other brother, Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, had an important place in Russian and Soviet art as a master of monumental painting and graphic art. The English actor and writer Peter Ustinov was also related to her. Youth In 1900, she graduated from a women's gym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin, (; November 5, Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._24_October.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>O._S._24_October">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._24_October1878_–_February_15,_1939)_was_a_Russian_and_ O._S._24_October">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._24_October1878_–_February_15,_1939)_was_a_Russian_and_USSR">Soviet_painter._His_early_iconographic_work_used_special_creative_effects_based_on_the_curve_of_the_globe,_but_its_images_were_considered_blasphemous_by_the_Russian_Orthodox_Church._However_he_went_on_to_become_the_first_president_of_the_Saint_Petersburg_Union_of_Artists.html" ;"title="USSR.html" "title="Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 24 October">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 24 October1878 – February 15, 1939 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Rozhdestvensky
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to: *Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462 *Vasili III of Russia Tsar from 1505–1533 *Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610 *Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny *Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter *Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis *Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general *Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander *Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal *Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General *Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son *Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author *Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist *Vasily Ignatenko (1961–1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Makovsky
Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (russian: Влади́мир Его́рович Мако́вский; 26 January (greg.: 7 February) 1846, Moscow – 21 February 1920, Petrograd) was a Russian painter, art collector, and teacher. Biography Makovsky was the son of collector, Egor Ivanovich Makovsky, who was one of the founders of the Moscow Art School. Vladimir had two brothers, Nikolay Makovsky and Konstantin Makovsky, and one sister, Alexandra Makovskaya, all of whom were famous painters. Vladimir studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. He finished his studies in 1869 and the following year became one of the founding members of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions, where his many years of prolific work brought him to a leading position Makovsky's work was defined by a perpetual humor as well as blatant irony and scorn. During the seventies his paintings dealt primarily with small-town folk. His pictures, "The Grape-juice Seller" (1879), " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipp Malyavin
Filipp Andreevich Malyavin (russian: Филипп Андреевич Малявин) (October 22, 1869, Kazanka (Julian calendar: October 10) – December 23, 1940, Nice, France) was a Russian painter and draftsman. ''Russia Beyond the Headlines''. Retrieved 2017-04-30. Trained in icon-painting as well as having studied under the great Russian realist painter , Malyavin is unusual among the Russian artists of the time for having a peasant background. It is possibly due to this that his paintings often depict peasant life, and his most famous work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (russian: Константи́н Алексе́евич Коро́вин, first name often spelled Constantin; 11 September 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Biography Youth and education Konstantin was born into a wealthy merchant family of Old BelieversBrief biography @ RusArtNet. and his mother was from the nobility, although they were officially registered as "peasants" from ". His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Kasatkin
Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Каса́ткин; 13 December 1859, Moscow – 17 December 1930, Moscow) was a Russian painter; considered to be one of the founders of Social Realism in Russia. Biography His father was an engraver and lithographer.Brief biography @ Russian Painting. From 1873 to 1883 he studied at the with and |
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