Donkey's Tail (,

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: 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 (; – May 10, 1964) was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian art. He was founding member of two important artistic groups Knave ...

(inventor of the name),

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 Lariono ...

Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...

, and

Aleksandr Shevchenko Aleksandr Vasilievich Shevchenko also Oleksandr Vasyliovych Shevchenko (; 24 May 1882, Kharkiv – 28 August 1948, Moscow) was a Ukrainian modernist painter and sculptor. Biography From 1890 to 1898, he took private drawing lessons from Dmy ...

. The group, according to

Gino Severini Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian Painting, painter and a leading member of the Futurism (art), Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classici ...

in his autobiography, was

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; it is known that, even if they were not, they were certainly influenced by the

Cubo-Futurism Cubo-Futurism () was an art movement, developed within Russian Futurism, that arose in the early 20th-century Russian Empire, defined by its amalgamation of the artistic elements found in Italian Futurism and French Analytical Cubism. Cubo-Futur ...

movement. The only exhibition of the group took place in

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in 1912 (notable for being the start of Malevich's entry into his Cubo-Futurist phase), and in 1913, the group fell apart.

Gallery

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, ''

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'', 1913 File:Chagall IandTheVillage.jpg,

, '' I and the Village'', 1911 File:Этюд женщины.jpg,

, ‘’ Study of the woman’’,1912

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 Russian modern artists Russian avant-garde