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1. RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE
Revision

2. Movements
• There are three main movements,
belonging all of them to the same period of
time:
– Constructivism,
– Suprematism
– and Rayonism.

3. Influences
• The three of them had connection with
other movements of the time as
– Cubism,
– Neo-Plasticism
– and Bauhaus.
• Other of their common characteristics is
the depiction of abstract form or figurative
but with a great influence of Cubism.

4. Constructivism
• Constructivism was first created in 1913
when the sculptor Tatlin discovered the
works of Braque and Picasso in Paris.
• Back in Russia he began producing
assemblages but abandoning any precise
subject of themes.

5. Constructivism
• The Constructivist art refers to the
optimistic, non-representational relief
construction, sculpture, kinetics and
painting.
• The artists did not believe in abstract
ideas, rather they tried to link art with
concrete and tangible ideas.

6. Constructivism
• The artists did not believe in abstract
ideas, rather they tried to link art with
concrete and tangible ideas.
• Their depicted art was mostly three
dimensional, and they also portrayed art
that could be connected to their
proletarian believes.

7. Constructivism
• Artists belonging to this movement are:
– Rodchenko,
– Tatlin,
– Gabo,
– Pevsner,
– El Lissitzky,
– Malevich.

8. Tatlin

9. Gabo

10. Pevner

11. Rodchencko

12. Suprematism
• Suprematism is considered the first
systematic school of purely abstract
pictorial composition in the modern
movement, based on geometric figures
• It was the expression of the supremacy of
pure sensation in creative art.

13. Suprematism
• The movement was founded by Malevich
in Moscow, parallel to Constructivism
• The project was above all the brainchild of
the painter and theoretician.
• According to him, to liberate art from the
ballast of the representational world.

14. Suprematism
• The work of the painter no longer involved
representing and creating chromatic
harmonies or formal compositions, but
rather attaining the limits of painting.
• It consisted of geometrical shapes flatly
painted on the pure canvas surface.

15. Suprematism
• The pictorial space had to be emptied of all
symbolic content and all content signifying
form.
• It had to be decongested and cleared so as
to show a new reality where thought was of
prime importance.

16. El Lissitzky

17. Malevich

18. Rayonism
• Rayonism represents one of the first steps
toward the development of abstract art in
Russia and was founded by Larionov and
Goncharova.
• The style was a synthesis of Cubism,
Futurism and Orphism and it is also
known as Cubo-Futurism

19. Rayonism
• They turned their back on all manner of
technical formulation and all kinds of
erudite cultural references.
• They produced works made up of diagonal
beams of colour.

20. Rayonism
• Blocky Cubist shapes are closely packed in
a dynamic Futurist rhythm across a
surface also marked by a series of sharp
diagonals.
• Some paintings featured one predominant
colour.

21. Rayonism
• These compositions were worked out in an
autonomous way: only the rhythms and
harmonies then guided the painter in his
attempt to make the dynamic radiation of
the colours perceptible.

22. Larionov

23. Goncharova