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Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (, ; 3 July 188117 October 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov. She was a founding member of both the Jack of Diamonds (artists), Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911), Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913), and with Larionov invented Rayonism (1912–1914). She was also a member of the German-based art movement Der Blaue Reiter. Born in Russia, she moved to Paris in 1921 and lived there until her death. Her painting vastly influenced the Avant-garde, avant-garde in Russia. Her exhibitions held in Moscow and St Petersburg (1913 and 1914) were the first promoting a "new" artist by an independent gallery. When it came to the pre-revolutionary period in Russia, where decorative painting and icons were a secure profession, her modern approach to rende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tula Governorate
Tula Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR. The governate existed from 1796 to 1929; its seat was in the city of Tula. It was divided into 12 districts. The main towns were Alexin, Bogoroditsk, Byelev, Chern, Epifan, Efremov, Kashira, Krapivna, Novosil, Odoyev, Tula, and Venev. Administrative division Ufa Governorate consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses): * Aleksinsky Uyezd ( Aleksin) * Belyovsky Uyezd ( Belyov) * Bogoroditsky Uyezd (Bogoroditsk) * Venyovsky Uyezd ( Venyov) * Yepifansky Uyezd ( Yepifan) * Yefremovsky Uyezd ( Yefremov) * Kashirsky Uyezd (Kashira) * Krapivensky Uyezd ( Krapivna) * Novosilsky Uyezd ( Novosil) * Odoyevsky Uyezd ( Odoyev) * Tulsky Uyezd ( Tula) * Chernsky Uyezd ( Chern) See also * Tula Oblast Tula Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an Oblasts of Russia, oblast) of Russia. It is geographicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde
In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an ''advance guard'' identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and Surrealism were ahead of their times. As a stratum of the intelligentsia of a society, avant-garde artists promote progressive and radical politics and advocate for societal reform with and through works of art. In the essay "The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist" (1825), Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues's political usage of ''vanguard'' identified the moral obligation of artists to "ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Konchalovsky
Pyotr or Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky (; 21 February 1876 – 2 February 1956) was a Russian and Soviet painter. He was a founding member and Chairman of the Knave of Diamonds group. Biography Early life Pyotr Konchalovsky was born in the village of Slavianka, Izyumsky Uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire, on 21 February 1876. His father was a translator and art publisher, with connections to many artists active in Russia during the late 19th century. In 1889, the Konchalovskys moved to Moscow and their house became a part of the Moscow art scene of the 1890s. Their house was often visited by Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Surikov, and Konchalovsky used to spend every weekend at Tretyakov gallery to study the canvases painted by key Russian artists. During his gymnasium years Konchalovsky attended classes of Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After advice of Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov, in 1896-1898 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Falk
Robert Rafailovich Falk (, October 15, 1886 – October 1, 1958) was a Russian and Soviet avant-garde painter. Biography Falk was born in Moscow in 1886. In 1903 to 1904 he studied art in the studios of Konstantin Yuon and Ilya Mashkov, in 1905 to 1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov. In 1910, Falk was one of the founders and the most active participant of the artistic group Jack of Diamonds. Along with Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova, Ilya Mashkov, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Alexander Kuprin, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vasily Rozhdestvensky with whom he became friends at the Moscow School of Painting, he was one of the Jack of Diamonds (in ) creators and major representatives. This group of artists, one of the first currents of the Russian avant-garde, rejected academicism and realism of the 19th century and was influenced, at the beginning, by the work of Paul Cézanne, whom it defended, and by Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin (Constantin) Alekseyevich Korovin (; 11 September 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Biography Youth and education Konstantin was born into a wealthy merchant family of Old BelieversBrief biography @ RusArtNet. and his mother was from the nobility, although they were officially registered as "peasants" from Vladimir ". His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin's grandfather. Konstantin's older brother [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Mashkov
Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (; – 20 March 1944) was a Russian artist, one of the most significant and at the same time most characteristic painters of the circle of " Jack of Diamonds" (). Biography He was born in the cossack village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don (near Volgograd) in a peasant family. After arriving at Moscow in 1900 he attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, whose teachers included Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov. In 1909 he was expelled from the school because of his artistic free thinking. He traveled much as a student, visiting a number of the countries of West Europe, and also Turkey and Egypt. He was the member of associations "Mir iskusstva" (Russian: Мир иску́сства) and " Jack of Diamonds". He lived in Moscow, sometimes visiting his village. His creative work reflected the colour revolution of the 20th century. The artistic innovations of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse were evident in his paintings which contain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Iskusstva
''Mir iskusstva'' ( rus, «Мир искусства», p=ˈmʲir ɪˈskustvə, ''World of Art'') was both a Russian magazine and the artistic movement it fostered, playing a significant role in shaping the Russian avant-garde. The movement was deeply influential to Russian artists who contributed to the 20th century revolution in European art. The magazine itself had limited circulation outside of Russia, as it remained a central part of the development of the Russian modernism movement. Foundation of Mir Iskustva The artistic group known as the Miriskusniki was founded in November 1898 by a collective of students that included Alexandre Benois, Konstantin Somov, Dmitry Filosofov, Léon Bakst, and Eugene Lansere. the group emerged from a shared vision to challenge the conventional artistic norms of the time and introduce a fresh, individualistic approach to Russian art. The beginnings of Mir Iskustva can be traced back to organization of the ''Exhibition of Russian and Finni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Troubetzkoy
Prince Paolo Petrovich Troubetzkoy (also known as Pavel or Paul; ; Intra, Italy, 15 February 1866 — Pallanza, 12 February 1938) was an Italian sculptor of Russian origin who was described by George Bernard Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times".G.B. Shaw, Preface to the catalogue of an exhibition of sculpture by Troubetzkoy at the P. & D. Colnaghi Galleries, London, 1931, i''The Complete Prefaces: 1930-1950''(Allen Lane, 1997), pp. 97-98. By birth, he was a member of the ancient House of Trubetskoy. Life He was the son of Russian diplomat, Prince Peter Petrovich Troubetzkoy (1822–1892) and his second wife, lyric singer Ada Winans (1831–1917). His paternal grandmother was Princess Emilie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (1801–1869), which makes him great-grandson of famous Marshal Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg. He worked in Italy, Russia, the United States, England and France. Troubetzkoy grew up in a family open to the influence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlovsky, Rostov Oblast
Orlovsky () is a rural locality (a '' posyolok'') in Orlovsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Population: It is also the administrative center of Orlovsky District. History Orlovsky was founded as a posyolok near Tikhoretskaya— Tsaritsyn line railway station of the Vladikavkaz Railway, which was built in 1896–1898. In 1910 Orlovsky obtained the status of ''stanitsa''. In the same year it began to be quickly settled by cossack families from the villages of the upper Don: from Kurmoiarskaya, Kundriyuchenskaya, Bystryanska, Luganskaya, Semikarakorskaya, Romanovskaya and others. According to 1915 data, the settlement had 472 households with 2,097 man and 2,092 women. There were several mills, creameries, smithies, a tannery, hay barns, forest exchanges, three churches, twelve primary schools, and a gymnasium. In March 1920, during Russian Civil War, the village was taken by Red Army. According to data of the first All-Union Census of the Soviet Union, which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet,Short biography from University of Virginia . Retrieved 24 November 2006.Allan Reid, "Russia's Greatest Poet/Scoundrel" Retrieved 2 September 2006. as well as the founder of modern Russian literature [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an Oblasts of Russia, oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in European Russia and is administratively part of the Central Federal District, covering an area of . It has a population of Tula, Russia, Tula is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of the oblast. Tula Oblast borders Moscow Oblast in the north, Ryazan Oblast, Ryazan in the east, Lipetsk Oblast, Lipetsk in the southeast, Oryol Oblast, Oryol in the southwest, and Kaluga Oblast, Kaluga in the west. Tula Oblast is one of the most developed and urbanized territories in Russia, and the majority of the territory forms the Tula-Novomoskovsk, Russia, Novomoskovsk Agglomeration, an urban area with a population of over 1 million. History The Tula Oblast area has been inhabited since the Stone Age, as shown by the discoveries of burial mounds (kurgans) and old settlements. By the eighth century, these la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernsky District
Chernsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-three in Tula Oblast, Russia.Law #954-ZTO As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Chernsky Municipal District.Law #546-ZTO It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ... is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Chern. Population: 20,476 ( 2010 Census); The population of Chern accounts for 31.3% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of Tula Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
