Blue Rose (Голубая роза - Blaue Rose) was a
Symbolist
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
*Symbol, any object or sign that represents an idea
Arts
*Artistic symbol, an element of a literary, visual, or other work of art that represents an idea
** Color symbolism, the use of colors within various c ...
artist association in Moscow from 1906 to 1908.
Characteristics
The group emphasized color as a 'tonal' medium to construct rhythm in a painting and the elimination of shape and contour.
Members
Members included Anatolii Arapov, Petr Bromirsky, V. Drittenpreis, Nikolai Feofilaktov,
Artur Fonvizin,
Nikolai Krymov,
Pavel Kuznetsov
Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov (1878–1968) was a painter and graphic artist.
Life and career
He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School (1891–1896), then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904) and for a y ...
, Ivan Knabe, Nikolai Milioti, Vasilii Milioti, Aleksandr Matveev, Nikolai Ryabushinsky,
Nikolai Sapunov,
Martiros Saryan,
Serge Sudeikin and Petr Utkin.
Inspiration
Their style was inspired by the Russian Impressionist,
Viktor Borisov-Musatov, the name of the group was used for their exhibition in 1906 and was derived from the poem Blue Flower by the poet
Novalis
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.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, Russian Revolution, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Ru ...
, the poet/critic said of the group in 1907 "The artists are in love with the music of color and line."
Wassily Kandinsky
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was an associate of the group, being greatly taken with their artistic viewpoint he contributed paintings to a few of their exhibitions in Moscow between 1906 and 1910.
See also
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Der Blaue Reiter
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, an art group in Munich
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Green Flower, an art group in Latvia
References
''The Blue Rose: Russian Symbolism in Art'' by John E. Bowlt
External links
Russian art movements
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