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Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (; June 4, 1881 - October 17, 1962) was a Russia
Russia

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

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
 (Cubo-Futurism
Cubo-Futurism

Cubo-Futurism was the main school of Russian Futurism which imbued Cubism developed in Russia from 1913, after Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris and exhibited his works in Moscow....
), painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 and costume designer
Costume Designer

File:Robert Edmond Jones.jpgA costume designer is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or Stage production. He or she is considered part of the "production team", alongside the Theatre director, scenic design and lighting designers as well as the sound designer....
. Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina
Natalia Pushkina

Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina-Lanskaya , n?e Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova , was the wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin from 1831 until his death in 1837 of a duel with Georges d'Anth?s....
, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

lia Goncharova was born in Nagaevo village near Tula
Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa River....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 in 1881.






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Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (; June 4, 1881 - October 17, 1962) was a Russia
Russia

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

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
 (Cubo-Futurism
Cubo-Futurism

Cubo-Futurism was the main school of Russian Futurism which imbued Cubism developed in Russia from 1913, after Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris and exhibited his works in Moscow....
), painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 and costume designer
Costume Designer

File:Robert Edmond Jones.jpgA costume designer is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or Stage production. He or she is considered part of the "production team", alongside the Theatre director, scenic design and lighting designers as well as the sound designer....
. Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina
Natalia Pushkina

Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina-Lanskaya , n?e Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova , was the wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin from 1831 until his death in 1837 of a duel with Georges d'Anth?s....
, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

Life and work

Natalia Goncharova was born in Nagaevo village near Tula
Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa River....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 in 1881. She studied sculpture
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
 at the Moscow Academy of Art, but turned to painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 in 1904. She was deeply inspired by the primitive
Primitive

Primitive is a subjective label used to imply that one thing is less "sophisticated" or less "advanced" than some other thing. Being a comparative word it is also relative in nature....
 aspects of Russia
Russia

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

Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture....
 and attempted to emulate it in her own work while incorporating elements of fauvism
Fauvism

Les Fauves were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Realism or Representation values retained by Impressionism....
 and cubism
Cubism

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature....
. Together with her husband Mikhail Larionov
Mikhail Larionov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was an avant-garde Russian painter....
 she first developed 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....
. They were the main progenitors of the pre-Revolution Russian avant-garde organising the 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....
 exhibition of 1912 and showing with the Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter

Der Blaue Reiter was a group of artists from the Neue K?nstlervereinigung M?nchen in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Br?cke which was founded the previous decade in 1905....
 in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
 the same year.

Goncharova Cyclist
The Donkey's Tail was conceived as an intentional break from European art influence and the establishment of an independent Russian school of modern art. However, the influence of Russian Futurism
Russian Futurism

Russian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Marinetti's manifesto. Russian futurism may be said to have been born in December 1912, when the Moscow-based group Hylaea issued a manifesto entitled A Slap in the Face of Public Taste....
 is much in evidence in Goncharova's later paintings. Initially preoccupied with icon painting and the primitivism
Primitivism

Primitivism , or more accurately, "soft primitivism" -- the opinion that life was better or more moral during the early stages of mankind or among primitive peoples and has deteriorated with civilization -- is a response to the perennial question of whether the development of complex civilization and technology has benefited or harmed mankin...
 of ethnic Russian folk-art, Goncharova became famous in Russia for her Futurist work such as The Cyclist and her later Rayonnist
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....
 works. As leaders of the Moscow Futurist
Futurism (art)

Futurism was an art Art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere....
s, they organised provocative lecture evenings in the same vein as their Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 counterparts. Goncharova was also involved with graphic design - writing and illustrating a book in Futurist style.

Goncharova was a member of the Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter

Der Blaue Reiter was a group of artists from the Neue K?nstlervereinigung M?nchen in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Br?cke which was founded the previous decade in 1905....
 avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 group from its founding in 1911. In 1915, she began to design ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
 costumes and sets in Geneva
Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....
. Her designs for the ballet Liturgy were started in 1915. The Liturgy was commissioned by Diaghilev with Goncharova, Léonide Massine and Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
. She moved to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 in 1921 where she designed a number of stage sets of 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....
's 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....
. She became a French citizen in 1939.

In 1962 she died in Paris.

Legacy


On June 18 2007 Goncharova's 1909 painting Picking Apples was auctioned at Christie's
Christie's

Christie's is a leading art business and a fine arts auction house....
 for $9.8 million, setting a record for any female artist. The record was updated a year later, when Goncharova's 1912 still-life The Flowers (formerly part of Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
's collection) sold for $10.8 million.

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