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The World of Art ( Mir iskusstva ) played an important role in Russian culture at the turn of the century. This was the name of both a group of artists and the periodical it published. The history an...
In December 1910, a group of artists held an exhibition in Moscow with the strange sounding name of the Knave of Diamonds (???????? ?????). The name was deliberately intended by one of the organisers...
The Futurist movement was officially launched by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Italy in 1909. The phrase "the art of the future" first appeared in the Russian press in 1908, a year before the official...
Kazimir Malevich came to his personal revelation of Suprematism via Impressionism, Cubism and Cubo-Futurism. Malevich’s relatively short career – slightly more than two decades – was incredibly rich ...