Russian Avant-Garde by Evgueny Kovtun

Author: Evgueny Kovtun
eBook Title: Russian Avant-Garde
ISBN10: 1840138580
ISBN13: 978-1840138580
Language: English
Publisher: Grange (2007)
Category: Arts & Photography
Subcategory: History & Criticism
Size ePub vers.: 1455 kb
Size PDF vers.: 1313 kb
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The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia. Intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic constraints of the past. It was these Avant-Garde artists who, through their immense creativity, gave birth to abstract art, thereby elevating Russian culture to a modern level. Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevitch, Gontcharova, Larionov, and Tatline, to name but a few, had a definitive impact on 20th-century art.