Aristarkh Lentulov

Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov (russian: Аристарх Васильевич Лентулов; 15 April 1943) was a major Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation who also worked on set designs for the theatre.

Biography

Aristarkh Lentulov was born in the town of Nizhny Lomov in Penza Oblast, Russia into the family of a rural priest. He studied art in the Penza and Kiev art schools from 1897 to 1905, and then in the private studio of Dmitry Kardovsky in Saint Petersburg in 1906.

He lived in Moscow from 1909, and he was one of the founders of the avant-garde exhibiting association of artists, the Jack of Diamonds group. This group remained active until its dissolution in 1916.

From 1910 to 1911, Lentulov studied at the studio of Henri Le Fauconnier and the Académie de La Palette in Paris. The 1910s were for Lentulov a period of creative productivity and experimentation. He was drawn to Orphism influenced by the French artist Robert Delaunay. Whilst there, he became acquainted with contemporary French painters such as Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay and after absorbing fauvists' and cubists' principles, developed his own unique colorful style of painting. Later, after his return to Russia in 1912 he became a major influence on what to become the Russian futurism and in particular Cubo-Futurism. Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both influenced by him.

Lentulov also formed another group, with Vladimir Mayakovsky and Kazimir Malevich, called ''Today's Lubock'' (''Segodnyashnii Lubok''). They produced satire art that was anti-Austria and anti-Germany. The art pulled inspiration from Russian folklore and lubok art. Lentulov's own art was heavily inspired by traditional and folk Russian architecture.

From pre-revolutionary times, Lentulov was actively involved in various theatrical projects, designing for plays in the Kamerny Theatre ('' The Merry Wives of Windsor'', 1916) and contributing sets for a production of Scriabin's ''Prometheus'' in the Bolshoi Theatre in 1919.

In 1928, Lentulov entered into the Society of Moscow artists, which included artists formerly associated with the Jack of Diamonds group. He became chairman of the Society and also started teaching at the Russian state art and technical school ( VKhUTEMAS).

Lentulov died in Moscow and is buried in the Vagankovo Cemetery.

Works

* ''Saint Basil's Cathedral'', 1913, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
* ''Ringing'', 1913, GTG
* ''Moscow'', 1913, GTG;
* ''In The iverskoy'', 1916, GTG;
* ''View with the red house'', 1917;
* ''Churches. New Jerusalem '', 1917;
* ''Aleksandra Khokhlova'', 1919
* ''Self-portrait with the violin''
* Portrait A. 4. Tairova. 1920;
* The ''cracking of petroleum refinery'', 1931, GTG;
* ''Night on the patriarch ponds'', 1928, GTG;
* ''Passionate area at night'', 1928, GRM
* ''Sunset in the Volga'', 1928;
* ''The sun above the roofs. Rise'', 1928;
* ''Vegetables'', 1933, GTG
* ''Building of the metro over the Lubyanka area'', 1936, GTG;

File:Lentulov Nebozvon.jpg, ''Skybell (Nebozvon)''
File:Lentulov Woman Guitar.jpg, ''Woman with Guitar'', 1913
File:Lentulov Wife Daughter.jpg, ''Portrait of Artist's Wife and Daughter'', 1915
File:Lentulov-tverskoy.jpg, ''Tverskoi Boulevard '', 1917
File:Aleksandra Khokhlova by Aristarkh Lentulov 1919.jpg, Aleksandra Khokhlova, 1919

See also

* List of Russian artists

Bibliography

* Lentulova M., Khudozhnik A. Lentulov. ''Recollections. M.'', 1969.
* Aristarkh Lentulov. Catalog of exhibition, M., 1968

References

External links

Artcyclopedia
Links to Lentulov's works
Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA

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1882 births
1943 deaths
People from Nizhnelomovsky District
People from Nizhnelomovsky Uyezd
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
Russian male painters
20th-century Russian painters
Russian avant-garde
Russian Futurist painters
19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire
Vkhutemas faculty
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery
20th-century Russian male artists