The Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modern art that flourished in Russia from approximately 1890 to 1930 - although some place its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960. The term covers many separate, but inextricably related, art movements that occurred at the time; namely Russian Symbolism, neo-primitivism, suprematism, constructivism, and futurism.

The Russian avant-garde reached its creative and popular height in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, at which point the ideas of the avant-garde clashed with the newly emerged state-sponsored direction of Socialist Realism.

Notable artists from this era include:

• Marc Chagall
• Pavel Filonov
• Wassily Kandinsky
• El Lissitzky
• Kazimir Malevich
• Liubov Popova
• Alexander Rodchenko
• Olga Rozanova
• Vladimir Tatlin
• Nadezhda Udaltsova

• Olexandr Dovzhenko
• Sergei Eisenstein
• Vsevolod Pudovkin
• Dziga Vertov

• Sergei Tretyakov

See also

• Soviet art
• Avant-garde
• Russian Symbolism
• Mir iskusstva
• VKhUTEMAS
• Cubo-Futurism
• Suprematism

External links

• Russian and ukrainian avant-gardists
• Dmitriy Gorbachov, Ukrainian Avant-garde Art 1910-1930s, Mystetstvo, 1996, Kiev, Ukraine.
• Exhibition Ukrainian modernism NY, Chikago, 2006, USA
• Avantgarde and Ukraine, Exhibition of the Villa Stuck Munich, 1993, Germany.
• Exhibition L'art en Ukraine, Toulouse, France, 1993.
• Ukrainian Avant-garde of 1910s-1930s / Ukrajinska Avangarda 1910-1930. Zagreb, 1991, Croatia.
• http://www.russianavantgard.com/

Further reading

• "The Russian avant-garde of 1910-1920 and issues of Expressionism", ed. by G.F.Kovalenko,Nauka, Moscow, 2003.

Russian avant-garde | Modern art | אוונגרד רוסי | Russische Avantgarde | Vanguarda russa