Aristarkh Lentulov

Aristarkh Lentulov ( _ru. Лентулов, Аристарх Васильевич) (January 4,1882 - April 15,1943) was a major Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation who also worked on set designs for the theatre.

Biography

Aristarkh Lentulov was born in the town of Nizhny Lomov near Penza into the family of a rural priest. He studied art in the Penza and Kiev art schools from 1897 to 1905, and then in the private studio of Dmitry Kardovsky in Saint 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 as Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger and Robert 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 particular Cubo-Futurism. Vassily Kandinsky and Kazimir 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 the Bolshoi 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., 1968

External 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