Donkey's Tail (,
Romanized
Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...
: Osliniy khvost) was a Russian artistic group created from the most radical members of the
Jack of Diamonds group. The group included such painters as:
Mikhail Larionov
Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Ларио́нов; June 3, 1881 – May 10, 1964) was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Rus ...
(inventor of the name),
Natalia Goncharova,
Kazimir Malevich,
Marc Chagall, and
Aleksandr Shevchenko
Aleksandr Vasilievich Shevchenko ( uk, Олександр Васильович Шевченко; 24 May 1882, Kharkiv – 28 August 1948, Moscow) was a Ukrainian modernist painter and sculptor.
Biography
From 1890 to 1898, he took private dr ...
. The group, according to
Gino Severini in his autobiography, was
Futurist;
it is known that, even if they were not, they were certainly influenced by the
Cubo-Futurism
Cubo-Futurism (also called Russian Futurism or Kubo-Futurizm) was an art movement that arose in early 20th century Russian Empire, defined by its amalgamation of the artistic elements found in Italian Futurism and French Analytical Cubism. Cubo ...
movement. The only exhibition of the group took place in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
in 1912 (notable for being the start of Malevich's entry into his Cubo-Futurist phase), and in 1913, the group fell apart.
Gallery
File:Cyclist (Goncharova, 1913).jpg, Natalia Goncharova, '' Cyclist'', 1913
File:Chagall IandTheVillage.jpg, Marc Chagall, '' I and the Village'', 1911
References
Bibliography
* Voloshin ''Лики творчества'' (''Faces of creativity'') - Leningrad: Nauka, 1988. - pp. 287–289.
* Pospelov, G. ''Бубновый валет'' (''Jack of Diamonds'') - Moscow: Soviet artist, 1990. - .
{{Futurism, state=expanded
Russian art movements
Russian artist groups and collectives
Modern artists
Russian avant-garde