Russian avant-garde

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The Russian avant-garde was a radical and influential early 20th-century artistic movement in Russia that revolutionized painting, literature, theater, and design through experimental, abstract, and politically engaged forms.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
cultural movement
historical movement
aim to break with traditional artistic conventions
to create a new art for a new society
associatedWith October Revolution
linked to: Russian Revolution

early Soviet state
countryOfOrigin Russia
Soviet Union
declineCause rise of Socialist Realism in the 1930s
endTime circa 1930s
field architecture
design
graphic design
literature
painting
theater
hasCharacteristic abstract
emphasis on industrial materials
experimental
politically engaged
rejection of academic art
revolutionary aesthetics
use of geometric forms
hasInfluenceOn 20th-century modern art
Bauhaus
abstract art
constructivist architecture
graphic design
international avant-garde
hasPart Constructivism
Cubo-Futurism
Productivism
Proletkult
Rayonism
Russian Futurism
Suprematism
Zaum poetry
inspiredBy French Cubism
linked to: Cubism

Italian Futurism
linked to: Futurism

Symbolism
languageOfWork Russian
movementType avant-garde
modernism
notableArtist Alexander Rodchenko
El Lissitzky
Kazimir Malevich
Lyubov Popova
Mikhail Larionov
Natalia Goncharova
Varvara Stepanova
Vladimir Tatlin
Wassily Kandinsky
notableFilmmaker Dziga Vertov
Sergei Eisenstein
notableTheaterPractitioner Vsevolod Meyerhold
notableWork Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Black Square
Proun series
The Man with the Movie Camera
Victory over the Sun
notableWriter Aleksei Kruchyonykh
Velimir Khlebnikov
Vladimir Mayakovsky
opposedBy Socialist Realism
linked to: socialist realism
period early 20th century
politicalContext Bolshevik Revolution
linked to: Russian Revolution

Soviet socialism
region Eastern Europe
startTime circa 1890s
usedMedium architecture models
book design
collage
film
painting
photomontage
poster design
theatrical staging

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Constructivism associatedWith Russian avant-garde
László Moholy-Nagy influencedBy Russian avant-garde
Vsevolod Meyerhold movement Russian avant-garde
Vitebsk School of Art movement Russian avant-garde
Vitebsk School of Art partOf Russian avant-garde
Kazimir Malevich movement Russian avant-garde
Russian Futurism influenced Russian avant-garde
Suprematism activeInPeriod Russian avant-garde
Vladimir Tatlin movement Russian avant-garde
Vladimir Tatlin associatedWith Soviet avant-garde
linked to: Russian avant-garde
El Lissitzky movement Russian avant-garde
Alexander Rodchenko movement Russian avant-garde
Varvara Stepanova movement Russian avant-garde
Varvara Stepanova activeInPeriod Russian avant-garde period
linked to: Russian avant-garde
Lyubov Popova movement Russian avant-garde
Lyubov Popova participantIn Russian avant-garde movement
linked to: Russian avant-garde
Museum Ludwig hasNotableCollection Russian avant-garde
Alexandra Exter movement Russian avant-garde
Viktor Shklovsky movement Russian avant-garde
Osip Mandelstam movement Russian modernism
linked to: Russian avant-garde
Andrei Voznesensky movement Soviet literary avant-garde
linked to: Russian avant-garde
Meyerhold Theatre movement Russian avant-garde
Zinaida Reich movement Russian avant-garde
Russian cosmism hasInfluenced Russian avant-garde
Soviet film industry influencedBy Russian avant-garde
INKhUK movement Soviet avant-garde
linked to: Russian avant-garde
Georgian modernism movementInfluencedBy Russian modernism
linked to: Russian avant-garde
Georgian avant-garde circle influencedBy Russian avant-garde
UNOVIS influencedBy Russian avant-garde
Gustav Klutsis movement Soviet avant-garde
linked to: Russian avant-garde
Russian Silver Age culture influenced Soviet avant-garde
linked to: Russian avant-garde