The Russian Museum: Almanac, Edition 92, 2004: The Knave of Diamonds in the Russian Avant-Garde

📓 "The Knave of Diamonds exhibition in the Russian Avant-garde, organized by the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, represents the work of a brilliant galaxy of Russian painters - the members of the Knave of Diamonds, as well as other Russian avant-garde artists who took part in the same name exhibitions during the 1910-s. For the first time in many decades, in the halls of the two leading Russian museums that store masterpieces of Russian painting, a temporary exposition will be set up, demonstrating the innovation and the highest level of pictorial mastery inherent in the art of the "Bubnovalevaletz" and their contemporaries. Works by Pyotr Konchalovsky, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ilya Mashkov, Robert Falk, Alexander Kuprin, Vasily Rozhdestvensky, as well as Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Vladimir Tatlin, Olga Rozanova, Kazimir Malevich, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Alexandra Exter and others, collected from the collections of the State Russian Museum , The State Tretyakov Gallery, 15 regional Russian museums and a number of private owners, recreate the atmosphere and spirit of the 1910s, when each of the exhibitions - be it the first "The Knave of Diamonds" 1910-1911 year in, then the "Donkey's Tail", "target", following the exposure of "The Knave of Diamonds" - became a real discovery, demonstrating the new steps in the development of the artistic language. The creativity of the artists "The Knave of Diamonds", as well as the wor...