Mikhail Larionov

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Mikhail Larionov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russian

Russian language

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Russia

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n painter.

ail Larionov was born at Tiraspol

Tiraspol

Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the de facto independent Transnistria . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester....
, near Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
. In 1898 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. The school was formed by the 1865 merger of a private art college, established in Moscow in 1832, and the Palace School of Architecture, established in 1749 by Dmitry Ukhtomsky....
under Isaac Levitan

Isaac Levitan

Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape Painting who advanced the genre of the mood landscape....
and Valentin Serov

Valentin Serov

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was a Russian Painting, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era....
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Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russian

Russian language

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n painter.

Life and work

Mikhail Larionov was born at Tiraspol

Tiraspol

Odessa

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

Isaac Levitan

Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape Painting who advanced the genre of the mood landscape....
and Valentin Serov

Valentin Serov

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was a Russian Painting, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era....
. He was suspended three times for his radical outlook. In 1900 he met Natalya Sergeevna Goncharova and formed a life-long relationship with her.

From 1902 his style was Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists art exhibition their art publicly in the 1860s....
. After a visit to Paris in 1906 he moved into Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Edouard Manet....
and then a Neo-primitive style which derived partly from Russian sign painting. In 1908 he staged the Golden Fleece exhibition in Moscow, which included paintings by international avant-garde artists such as Matisse

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was a France artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a drawing, printmaking, and Sculpture, but principally as a Painting, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century....
, Derain

André Derain

Andr? Derain was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse....
, Braque

Georges Braque

Georges Braque was a major 20th century French Painting and sculpture who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as cubism....
, Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Eug?ne Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading Post-Impressionism Painting. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetism style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral...
and Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch people Post-Impressionism artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art....
. Other group shows promoted by him included Tatlin

Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin worked as a painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became the most important artist in the Constructivism movement....
, Chagall

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall ; [shuh-GAHL] , was a Jewish Russians artist, born in Belarus and naturalized France in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century....
and Malevich

Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich , was a Painting and art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the Avant-garde Suprematist movement....
.

Larionov was a founding member of two important Russian artistic groups Jack of Diamonds

Jack of Diamonds (artists)

Jack of Diamonds , also called Knave Of Diamonds, was a group of artists founded in 1909 in Moscow. The group included Robert Falk, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ilya Mashkov, Alexander V....
(1909–1911) and the more radical Donkey's Tail

Donkey's Tail

Donkey's Tail was a Russian artistic group created from the most radical members of the Jack of Diamonds group. The group included such painters as: Mikhail Larionov , Natalia Gontcharova, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Shevchenko....
(1912–1913). He gave names to both groups. His first solo show was for one day in Moscow in 1911.

In 1913 he created Rayonism

Rayonism

Rayonism is a style of abstract art that developed in Russia in 1911.Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova developed rayonism after hearing a series of lectures about Futurism by Marinetti in Moscow....
, which was the first creation of near-abstract art in Russia. In 1915 he left Russia and worked with the ballet owner Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
in Paris on the productions of the Ballets Russes

Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company which performed under the directorship of Sergei Diaghilev between 1909 and 1929. Some of their places of residence included the Th??tre Mogador and the Th??tre du Ch?telet, though they worked in many countries, including England, the U.S.A., and Spain....
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In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria

Transnistrian Republican Bank

The Transnistrian Republican Bank is the central bank of Transnistria. It issues its own currency, the Transnistrian ruble and also a series of memorable gold- and silver coins, among them The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie....
minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria

Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie
The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie

The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie is the name of a series of memorable coins issued between 2001 and 2004 by the Transnistrian Republican Bank It consists of silver coins featuring the following notable natives of Transnistria:...
.

The highest price paid for a Larionov painting at auction is 2,200,000 British pounds.

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Marevna
Marie Vorobieff

Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ? the nickname Marevna reputedly having been given her by Maxim Gorky after a Russian fairy sea princess ? was a cubist Painting who is internationally noted for convincingly combining elements of cubism with pointillism and ? through the use of the Golden Ratio for laying out paintings ? structure....
, showing Ballet owner Serge de Diaghilev
Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
(centre) with Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
(to his left), Natalya Goncharova (left) and her husband Mikhail Larionov (right), (scroll down to 3rd painting).