Introduction to ‘Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932’
Free talk
Monday 13 February 2017 1 - 2pm
The Reynolds Room, Burlington House. Entrance via De Grey Court
Free, booking required.
Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932
Exhibition co-curator Professor John Milner introduces 'Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932' and investigates how artists from Kazimir Malevich to Alexander Deineka made Russian art revolutionary in the first 15 years after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
The revolution of October 1917 triggered radical innovations in Russian art. Encouraged to work collectively to promote the revolution, artists began to make a face for the Bolshevik regime, replacing signs of the Imperial command with an art for the people. Artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko and Popova turned the storm of the Russian Revolution into a radical experiment in art and society. In 1932, the work of these artists was celebrated and exhibited in Artists of the Russian Federation over Fifteen Years, a diverse survey held in Leningrad and curated by the critic Nikolai Punin. Yet later in the same year, all independent art groups were dissolved, and Socialist Realism became the dominant force in the Russian art world.
Professor John Milner, co-curator of this exhibition and Honorary Professor in Russian Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, introduces the RA’s landmark show, which marks 100 years since the Russian Revolution of 1917. Taking inspiration from Punin’s exhibition, Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 highlights the diversity of art in the 15 years following the revolution, when Russian modern art flourished, until Stalin’s ultimate suppression of the avant-garde in 1932.
Doors open at 12.30pm. Unclaimed seats will be released to those waiting for returns at 12.55pm. No admittance will be granted after 1pm.
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