Project Description

Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 55 cm x 46 cm

Signed lower left, dated 74 (1974) : Chetochine

abstract composition

Chetochine Vladimir (active in France between 1930 and 1950)

Russian School Late 19th Early 20th

Excerpt from Russian painting (and soviet) from the 20th century to the present day

The Russian avant-garde

peaked in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, when avant-garde ideas find themselves at odds with the emergence of socialist realist movement promoted by the state under Stalin's orders.

In addition to those already mentioned, the emblematic figures of this period are called Nathan Altman, Alexandre Bogomazov, Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine, all three Ukrainians, Vera Ermolaeva, Pavel Filonov, Ivan Kliun, Pavel Kuznetsov, el lissitzky, Lioubov Popova, Ivan Puni (became Jean Pougny in France), Kliment Redko, Alexandre Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Leopold Survage, Varvara Stepanova, Nadezhda Oudaltsova… with, and it is rare enough to be noted, a large number of women.

Constructivism

Post-revolutionary Russian art is futuristic, constructivist, productivist, similar movements setting themselves the task of creating the environment of the future society. Many artists, like Kandinsky or Tatlin, hold important official positions, such as a professor at the Moscow Academy. But after 1920, the government condemns the works ofcontemporary art, as incomprehensible to ordinary people and contrary to the public interest.

Towards 1922, the constructivism in the Soviet Union finds itself confined to the applied arts (propaganda posters, notably). From 1932 at 1936, it appears a kind of "transitional style", defined as postconstructiviste.

Two dates mark the end of the constructivism Russian : first of all 1930, with Mayakovsky's suicide, then 1934 with the start of soviet realism, end of a formidable working-class artistic impulse which had attracted many leading artists, as el lissitzky or Alexandre Rodtchenko who declared “the absolute necessity of linking all creation to the production and the very organization of life”.

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