- Aristarkh Lentulov
Aristarkh Lentulov ( _ru. Лентулов, Аристарх Васильевич) (
January 4 ,1882 -April 15 ,1943 ) was a majorRussian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation who also worked on set designs for thetheatre .Biography
Aristarkh Lentulov was born in the town of Nizhny Lomov near
Penza into the family of a rural priest. He studied art in thePenza andKiev art schools from 1897 to 1905, and then in the private studio ofDmitry Kardovsky inSaint Petersburg in 1906.He lived in
Moscow from 1909, and he was one of the founders of the avant-garde exhibiting association of artists, the Jack of Diamonds group. This group remained active until its dissolution in 1916.From 1910 to 1911 Lentulov studied at the Le Fauconnier studio and the La Palette Academy in
Paris . Whilst there, he became acquainted with contemporary French painters such asAlbert Gleizes ,Jean Metzinger ,Fernand Léger andRobert Delaunay and after absorbing fauvists' and cubists' principles, developed his own unique coulorful style of painting. Later, after his return to Russia in 1912 he became a major influence on what to become the Russian futurism and in particularCubo-Futurism .Vassily Kandinsky andKazimir Malevich were both influenced by him.From pre-revolutionary times, Lentulov was actively involved in various theatrical projects, designing for plays in the
Kamerny Theatre ("The Merry Wives of Windsor ", 1916) and contributing sets for a production of Scriabin's "Prometheus " in theBolshoi Theatre in 1919.In 1928 Lentulov entered into the Society of Moscow artists, which included artists formerly associated with the Jack of Diamonds group. He became chairman of the Society and also started teaching at the Russian state art and technical school (
VKhUTEMAS ).Lentulov died in Moscow and is buried in the
Vagankovo Cemetery .Works
* "Saint Basil's Cathedral", 1913,
Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow.
* "Ringing", 1913, GTG
* "Moscow", 1913, GTG;
* "In The iverskoy", 1916, GTG;
* "View with the red house", 1917;
* "Churches. New Jerusalem ", 1917;
* "Self-portrait with the violin"
* Portrait A. 4. Tairova. 1920;
* The "cracking of petroleum refinery", 1931, GTG;
* "Night on the patriarch ponds", 1928, GTG;
* "Passionate area at night", 1928, GRM
* "Sunset in the Volga", 1928;
* "The sun above the roofs. Rise", 1928;
* "Vegetables", 1933, GTG
* "Building of the metro over the Lubyanka area", 1936, GTG;Bibliography
* Lentulova M., Khudozhnik A. Lentulov. "Recollections. M.", 1969.
* Aristarkh Lentulov. Catalog of exhibition, M., 1968External links
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lentulov_aristarkh.html Artcyclopedia] Links to Lentulov's works
* [http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Horizons/En/bio-456.html Virtual Museum] Biography
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