[edit] Russian avant-garde
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915, The Russian Museum
Main articles: Russian avant-garde and Futurism (art) ...
Russian Avant-garde Movements
After the Bolshevik revolution and World War I, a new-artistic trend emerged in Europe.
El Lissitzky was a Russian avant-garde painter, photographer, architect and designer. Along with his mentor Kazimir Malevich, Lissitzky founded Suprematism.
The effect of this exhibition was comparable with the one of Paul Cezanne in Paris in 1907, as all the main Russian avant-garde artists of the time including Malevich immediately absorbed the cubist principles and started using them in his works.
Constructivism was an invention of the Russian avant-garde that found adherents across the continent.
El Lissitzky (1890-1941), best known as one of the leading Russian avant-garde artists, came to maturity towards the end of the Czarist era.
A distinctly Russian avant-garde in the visual arts took shape in the decade before the Revolution.
He outlived all his contemporaries - the pioneers of the Russian avant-garde - avoiding their professional failures and persecutions.
It was a movement created by the Russian avant-garde, but quickly spread to the rest of the continent.
Constructivism is very much a Russian movement which started in the Soviet Union with the Russian avant-garde.
Some said that the inclusion of the Russian avant-garde painters demonstrated that the group became an exhibition organization rather than an art movement. In 1917 the chairmen of the group became Ivan Bilibin.
as Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, and Carlo Carrà , and by the composer Luigi Russolo and the architect Antonio Sant'Elia, had a broad influence throughout Europe and were of special importance to the Russian avant-garde on the ...
 See also: Avant-garde, Movement, Painting, School, Sculpture
  
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