Russian avant-garde

The term covers many separate, but inextricably related, art movements that flourished at the time; including Suprematism, Constructivism, Russian Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Zaum, Imaginism, and Neo-primitivism.

[2][3][4][5] In Ukraine, many of the artists who were born, grew up or were active in what is now Belarus and Ukraine (including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko), are also classified in the Ukrainian avant-garde.

[6] The Russian avant-garde reached its creative and popular height in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, at which point the ideas of the avant-garde clashed with the newly emerged state-sponsored direction of Socialist Realism.

[7] Notable figures from this era include: Preserving Russian avant-garde architecture has become a real concern for historians, politicians and architects.

In 2007, MoMA in New York City, devoted an exhibition to Soviet avant-garde architecture in the postrevolutionary period, featuring photographs by Richard Pare.

Abstract art . Vasily Kandinsky , Kandinsky's first abstract watercolor (Study for Composition VII, Première abstraction), painted in 1913 [ 1 ]
Russian Futurism . Natalia Goncharova , Cyclist , 1913
Rayonism . Mikhail Larionov , The Glass , 1912
Suprematism . Kazimir Malevich , Black Square , 1915
Proletkult . El Lissitzky , Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge , 1919
Constructivism . Vladimir Tatlin , Monument to the Third International , 1919
Constructivist art . Alexander Rodchenko , chess table design, 1925
Constructivism . Ilya Golosov , Zuev Club , 1926