Alexandre Benois

"Versailles, King's Walk"

1906

Art Nouveau, Mir Iskustva, Aesthetic Movement

Art Nouveau

1. Forget this world, escape into the past

2. Save the whole world through beauty

(1898-1917)

Founded by Alexandre Benois and Sergey Diaghilev

Expression of Art Nouveau in Russia

Konstantine Somov

"Harlequin and Death"

Mir Iskustva

1907

Pre-revolutionary

1909-1929

Founded by Sergey Diaghilev

Never performed in Russia

Igor Stravinsky

Claude Debussy

Sergey Prokofiev

Vasily Kandinsky

Alexandre Benois

Pablo Picasso

Henri Matisse

Leon Bakst

Coco Chanel

Symbolist art group

1906-1908

Promoted beauty

Sought modern culture in eternity

Authenticity of existance

1910-1922

Began with Jack of Diamonds Exhibition

Brightness of colors and simplicity of form

Transformed artist from person with paintbrush to essentric alpha male

1910

Started Avant-Garde movement

Vladimir Mayakovsky

1908-1915

Vasilisk Gnedov

"Poem of the End"

(blank page)

1913

Futurist

Pre-revolutionary

Kazimir Malevich

"Black Suprematic Square"

1915

Futurists

Pre-revolutionary

"Geometric extraction without the wreakage of the real world"

Founder: Malevich

"Picture no longer depicts anything"

Wassily Kandinsky

"Untitled" (First Abstract Watercolor)

1910

 Expressionism, Avant-Garde

Pre-revolutionary

Wassily Kandinsky

"Composition VI"

1913

Expressionism, Avant-Garde

Pre-revolutionary

Mikhail Larionov

"Rooster"

1914

Rayonism/Luchism, Avant-Garde

Pre-revolutionary

Wassily Kandinsky

"Houses in Munich"

1908

Avant-Garde

Pre-revolutionary

Olga Ostoumova-Lebedeva

"Neva Through the Columns of the Exchange"

Mir Iskusstva, Art Noveau

Pre-revolutionary

Valentin Serov

"Peter the Great"

1907

Mir Iskusstva

Pre-revolutionary

Alexandre Benois

"Alphabet in Pictures"

1904

Mir Iskusstva

Pre-revolutionary

Konstantin Somov

"Lady in Blue"

1897-1900

Mir Iskusstva

Pre-revolutionary

Lev Baskt

(Costume design for Ballet Russes)

1908-1912

Lev Bakst

"Sergei Diaghilev"

1906

Mir Iskusstva

Pre-revolutionary

Natalia Goncharova

"Parrots"

1910

Avant-Garde

Pre-revolutionary

Vladimir Tatlin

"Monument to the Third International" aka Tatlin's Tower

1919

Constructivism

Early Soviet

Vladimir Tatlin

"Corner Counter-Relief"

1914

Constructivism

Pre-revolutionary

Kazimir Malevich

"Square"

1913

Futurists

Pre-revolutionary

Kazimir Malevich

"Taking in the Rye"
1911

Suprematism

Pre-revolutionary 

Mikhail Larionov

"Dancing Soldiers"

1910

Neoprimitivism

Pre-revolutionary

Kazimir Malevich

"Suprematist Tea Service"

1923

Suprematist

Early Soviet

Konstantin Iuon

"New Planet"

1921

Association of the Artists of the Revolution (AkhR)

Early Soviet

LEF (Left Front of Art)

1923-25

"abandon individualism to increase art's value for developing communism"

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Efim Cheptsov

"Sitting Room Meeting"

1924

AKhR

Early Soviet

Aleksandr Deineka

"The Defense of Petrograd"

1928

OST
Early Soviet 

Aleksandr Samokhvalov

"A Girl in a T-Shirt"

1932

Early Soviet

Boris Ioganson

"Interrogation of Communists"

1933

Socialist Realism

Early Soviet, Stalinism

Boris Ioganson

"Painting at an Old Urals Factory"

1937

Socialist Realism

Early Soviet, Stalinism

Sergei Gerasimov

"Feast on a Collective Farm"

1937
Sovialist Realism

Early Soviet, Stalinism 

Pavel Filonov

"Man and Woman, Adam and Eve"

1912-13

Avant-Garde

Pre-revolutionary

Aleksandr Bubnov

"Morning on the Kulikov Field in 1380"
 1944

Socialist Realism

Mid-Century

Aleksandr Deineka

"The Defense of Sevastopol"

1942

Socialist Realism

Mid-Century

Fedor Shurpin

"The Morning of Our Motherland"

1946-8

Socialist Realism

Mid-Century

Yuri Pimenov

"New Moscow"

1937

Socialist Realism

Early Soviet/Mid-Century

Aleksandr Gerasimov

"Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin"
1938

Soviet Realism

Early Soviet/Mid-Century 

Fedor Reshetnikov

"Home for the Holidays"

1948

Socialist Realism

Mid-Century

Fedor Reshetnikov

"D's Again"

1952

Socialist Realism

Mid-Century

Aleksandr Laktionov

"Letter from the Front"

1947

Socialist Realism

Mid-Century

Oskar Rabin

"Scrapyard No. 8"
1958

Underground Art

Mid-Century 

Viktor Popkov

"Builders of Bratsk"

1960

Underground Art

Mid-Century

Mikhail Roginsky

"Red Door"

1965

Underground Art

Mid-Century

Marcel Duchamp

"Fountain"

1917

Dadaism

Joseph Kosuth (American)

"One and Three Chairs"

1965

Conceptualism

Mid-Century

Ilya Kabakov

"Answers from the Experimental Group"

1970-71

Conceptualism

Late Soviet

Ilya Kabakov

"Whose Wings Are These?"

1987

Conceptualism

Late Soviet

Viktor Pivovarov

"Projects for a Lonesome Man"

1975

Conceptualism

Late Soviet

Collective Actions

"Slogan"

1977

Conceptualist

Late Soviet