Residents of Poland learned about the art of Russian avant-garde

The Russian Center of Science and Culture in Warsaw held an online lecture entitled “The Art of the Russian Avant-Garde”.

Master of Art History at Moscow State University Olga Tortsova spoke about the features of the development of this direction. She presented the works of such outstanding artists as Mikhail Larionov, Natalya Goncharova, Pavel Filonov, Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall. Listeners also learned about the main trends of the Russian avant-garde: cubo-futurism, rayist style, suprematism, and analytical art.

Igor Zhukovsky, head of the Rossotrudnichestvo Representative Office in the Republic of Poland, noted that the RCSC in Warsaw would continue to tell guests about the history of the development of art in Russia in the format of online meetings.

The history of Russian art is also widely represented in the electronic collections of the Presidential Library. The centers of remote access to information resources of the library located in different countries, provide the materials spotlighting the life and career of famous Russian artists of different eras, such as Ilya Repin, Ivan Bilibin. Since 2017, one of the remote electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library has been opened at the RCSC in Warsaw. 

Based on the materials of http://pol.rs.gov.ru/ru portal.