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Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) - Russia (Moscow)
Expressionism, Abstract Art, Constructivism
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (/kænˈdɪnski/ Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, Vasiliy Vasil’yevich Kandinskiy, pronounced [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj kɐnˈdʲinskʲɪj] 4 December (16 December by the Gregorian calendar) 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract wo...... |
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Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955) - France (Argentan)
Cubism, Modernism, Purism, Tubism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, Orphism, Suprematism, Constructivism
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe] February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunn...... |
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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 - 1935) - Ukraine (Kiev Governorate Of Russian Empire)
Suprematism, Cubism, Geometric Abstract Art, Expressionism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Abstract Art, Pointillism, Cubo-Futurism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Classicism, Realism, Constructivism
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich[nb 1] (February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling. Kazimir Malevic...... |
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El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941) - Russia (Pochinok)
Constructivism, Cubo-Futurism, Suprematism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Socialist Realism
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (Russian: Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, listen (help·info) November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 – December 30, 1941), known as El Lissitzky (Russian: Эль Лиси́цкий, Yiddish: על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde...... |
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Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (1889 - 1924) - Russia (Ivanovskoe)
Cubism, Abstract Art, Constructivism, Expressionism, Suprematism
Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (Russian: Любо́вь Серге́евна Попо́ва April 24, 1889 – May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. Popova was born in Ivanovskoe, near Moscow, to the wealthy family of Sergei Maximovich Popov, a very successful textile merchant and vigorous patron of the arts...... |
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Aleksandra Ekster (1882 - 1949) - Belarus (Białystok)
Cubo-Futurism, Art Deco, Suprematism, Art Nouveau, Constructivism
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (em russo: Александра Александровна Экстер, em ucraniano: Олександра Олександрівна Екстер 6 de janeiro de 1882 - 17 de março de 1949) foi uma pintora e designer franco-russa dos movimentos cubo-futurista, suprematista e construtivista. Aleksandra Ekster nasceu no dia 6 de janeiro de 1882 em Białystok, Império Russo (...... |
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Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953) - Ukraine (Kharkov)
Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Abstract Art, Post-Impressionism
Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (Russian: Влади́мир Евгра́фович Та́тлин 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1885 – 31 May 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. H...... |
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Aleksandr Deyneka (1899 - 1969) - Russia (Kursk)
Socialist Realism, Realism, Constructivism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Expressionism
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Дейне́ка May 20, 1899 – June 12, 1969) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century. His Collective Farmer on a Bicycle (1935) has been described as exem...... |
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Nathan Altman (1889 - 1970) - Ukraine (Vinnytsia)
Cubism, Constructivism, Socialist Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Expressionism
Nathan Isaevich Altman (Russian: Натан Исаевич Альтман, transliterated: Natan Isayevich Altman December 22 [O.S. December 10] 1889 – December 12, 1970) was a Jewish, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator. He was born in Vinnytsia, in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukra...... |
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Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) - Russia (St. Petersburg)
Cubo-Futurism, Abstract Art, Constructivism
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Rodchenko was one of the most versatile...... |
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