Verbovka Village Folk Centre was an artisan cooperative in the village of Verbovka founded by
Natalia Davidova Natalia may refer to:
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in the
Ukrainian
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province of
Kiev
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. Natalia Davidova, one of the founders and the head of the Kiev Folk Center, was an
Avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...
artist descended from the ancient Ukrainian Hudim-Levkovichis family (Russian philosopher
Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; – 24 March 1948) was a Russian Empire, Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialism, Christian existentialist who e ...
was her cousin and artist
Nina Genke-Meller was his sister-in-law). The beginning of the cooperation of Natalia Davidova and Nina Genke-Meller originated not just from their family relations. They both were keen on folk art and were devoted to the idea of implementation of Avant-garde artistic principles into practice of amateur goods. In 1915 Nina Genke became a head and chief artist of Natalia's Davidova Folk Center in Verbovka village. N.Davidova involved Nina Genke in "promoting " folk thing's production in accordance with the sketchers of famous Avant-garde artists. The members of the ''
Supremus'' group started to cooperate very actively. Between 1915 and 1916 many
Suprematist artists such as
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ; german: Kasimir Malewitsch; pl, Kazimierz Malewicz; russian: Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич ; uk, Казимир Северинович Малевич, translit=Kazymyr Severynovych ...
,
Aleksandra Ekster,
Nina Genke-Meller,
Nadezhda Udaltsova,
Liubov Popova,
Olga Rozanova,
Ivan Puni,
Ksenia Boguslavskaya,
Ivan Kliun and others worked with peasant artisans at the cooperative. In November 1915 N.Davidova, together with A.Ekster and N.Genke, arranged an ''Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art of the South of Russia'' in
Lamersie Moscow Gallery. There they represented the village ladies' works who studied decorative art in Verbovka and
Skoptsi
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's schools, as well as carpets, pillows, shawls and belts made in accordance with sketches of Popova, Malevich, Davidova, Genke, Ekster, Puni, Kliun, Pribilskaya, Yakulov, Rozanova, Vasilieva, Boguslavskaya and others. The exhibition received broad publicity in the press. In 1917 Davidova and Genke arranged the ''Second Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art'' in Moscow in Mikhailava's Saloon.
See also
*
Suprematism
References and Links
*''Ukrainian Avant-Garde Art 1910s-1930s'', Dmytro Horbachov, Kyiv, ''Mystetstvo'', 1996
*''Nina Henke -from folk Suprematism to Avant-gardism of Shows and Plays'', pp. 48–66, Sergei Papeta, Catalog, an Exhibition ''Avant-garde Adventures'', National Art Museum of Ukraine,(NAMU), 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine
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