Natalia Goncharova

1881–1962 · Avant-garde engine of Russian modernism

FuturismNeo-primitivismReligious formStage design

The short version

Goncharova fused icon painting and peasant woodcut with Cubo-Futurist fracture, was tried for blasphemy, and designed for the Ballets Russes.

Key works

1913

Motion rendered as repeated shopfront lettering.

Notes from members

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