Alexander Bogomazov
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Alexander or Oleksandr Bogomazov ' onMouseout='HidePop("29886")' href="/topics/Yampil">Yampil
- on June 3, 1930 in Kiev
) was Ukrainian
painter
, known artist
and modern art
theoretician
of Russian Avant-garde
(historically the term "Russian Avant-garde" refers to the art of all countries which were parts of Russia/USSR in the beginning of 20th century). In 1914 Alexander wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements. In it he analyzed the interaction between Object, Artist, Picture, and Spectator and sets the theoretical foundation of modern art. During his artistic life Alexander Bogomazov mastered several art styles. The most known are Cubo-Futurism
(1913–1917) and Spectralism (1920–1930).
. From 1896 to 1902 Oleksandr Bogomazov attended the Institute for Agriculture in Kherson
. From 1902 to 1905 he attended the Kiev Art School (KKHU), at the same time he had a close contact with Alexander Archipenko
and Aleksandra Ekster
.
In 1905 he participated in political demonstrations and strikes. In the same year he was expelled from the Kiev Art School. In 1906 he studied in the studio of S. Swiatoslavskiy. Bogomazov had an exhibition in Kiev
, together with Archipenko. That year he moved to Moscow
and became the student of Fodor Rerberg and Konstantin Yuon
.
In 1907 he returned to Kiev
. After 1907 he had regular exhibitions in Kiev, including the Association of Russian Artists and the Moscow Society of Independent Artists. In 1908 he participated in the exhibition with the group of artists Zveno
(The Link) in Kiev
together with David Burliuk
, Wladimir Burliuk
, Aleksandra Ekster
and others.
In 1911 he journeyed to Finland
.In the years 1912-1915 he taught at a school for the deaf and mute in Kiev. From 1913 to 1914 he studied the works of the Italian
Futurists
. At this time he developed art theories, and published his essay The Art of Painting and the Elements. In 1914 he organized the exhibition Kiltse ("The Ring") in Kiev, together with A.Ekster among others. In 1915 Bogomazov moved to the Caucasus
, where he worked as a teacher and painter.
In 1919 he taught at the First State Studio for Paintings and Decorative art in Kiev. From 1919 to 1920 he was the Head of the Department for Art Education in the Ukrainian Commissariat for Visual Art. At the same time he was the co-founder of the Ukrainian Agitprop Movement, and created designs for the Agitprom movement. From 1922 to 1930 he was taught at the Kiev Art Academy (KKHI) together with Vadim Meller, Vladimir Tatlin
, Victor Palmov
. In 1927 he was a founding member of the Association of the Revolutionary Masters of Ukraine (ARMU), together with D.Burliuk, V.Meller, V.Palmov, V. Yermilov
and others. In the same year he participated in the All-Ukrainian Exhibition Ten years October (Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa), together with Tatlin, Meller, Palmov, Epshtein among others.
Alexander Bogomazov died on June 3, 1930 in Kiev.
Yampil
Yampil Capital city of Yampilskiy Rayon located in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine....
- on June 3, 1930 in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
) was Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, known artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and modern art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
theoretician
Theory
The English word theory was derived from a technical term in Ancient Greek philosophy. The word theoria, , meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action...
of Russian Avant-garde
Russian avant-garde
The Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modern art that flourished in Russia approximately 1890 to 1930 - although some place its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960...
(historically the term "Russian Avant-garde" refers to the art of all countries which were parts of Russia/USSR in the beginning of 20th century). In 1914 Alexander wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements. In it he analyzed the interaction between Object, Artist, Picture, and Spectator and sets the theoretical foundation of modern art. During his artistic life Alexander Bogomazov mastered several art styles. The most known are Cubo-Futurism
Cubo-Futurism
Cubo-Futurism was the main school of painting and sculpture practiced by the Russian Futurists.When Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris in 1913 and exhibited his works in Moscow, the Russian Futurist painters adopted the forms of Cubism and combined them with the Italian Futurists'...
(1913–1917) and Spectralism (1920–1930).
Biography
Bogomazov was born in Yampol, Kharkov GovernorateKharkov Governorate
Kharkiv Governorate or Kharkov Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire originally founded in 1780. It was renamed to Sloboda Ukraine Governorate in 1797 and back to Kharkiv Governorate in 1835....
. From 1896 to 1902 Oleksandr Bogomazov attended the Institute for Agriculture in Kherson
Kherson
Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry...
. From 1902 to 1905 he attended the Kiev Art School (KKHU), at the same time he had a close contact with Alexander Archipenko
Alexander Archipenko
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist.-Biography:...
and Aleksandra Ekster
Aleksandra Ekster
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster was a Russian-French painter and designer.-Biography:-Childhood:...
.
In 1905 he participated in political demonstrations and strikes. In the same year he was expelled from the Kiev Art School. In 1906 he studied in the studio of S. Swiatoslavskiy. Bogomazov had an exhibition in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
, together with Archipenko. That year he moved to Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and became the student of Fodor Rerberg and Konstantin Yuon
Konstantin Yuon
Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.-Biography:...
.
In 1907 he returned to Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
. After 1907 he had regular exhibitions in Kiev, including the Association of Russian Artists and the Moscow Society of Independent Artists. In 1908 he participated in the exhibition with the group of artists Zveno
Zveno
Zveno was a Bulgarian military and political organization, founded in 1927 by army officers. It was associated with a newspaper of that name....
(The Link) in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
together with David Burliuk
David Burliuk
David Davidovich Burliuk was a Russian avant-garde artist of Ukrainian origin , book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism...
, Wladimir Burliuk
Wladimir Burliuk
Wladimir Burliuk was an avant-garde artist , book illustrator.-Biography:Burliuk was born on March 27, 1886 in Kharkiv, the brother of David Burliuk.In 1903 he studied at Azbe School in Munich....
, Aleksandra Ekster
Aleksandra Ekster
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster was a Russian-French painter and designer.-Biography:-Childhood:...
and others.
In 1911 he journeyed to Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
.In the years 1912-1915 he taught at a school for the deaf and mute in Kiev. From 1913 to 1914 he studied the works of the Italian
Italy
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Futurists
Futurists
Futurists or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose speciality is to attempt to systematically predict the future, whether that of human society in particular or of life on earth in general....
. At this time he developed art theories, and published his essay The Art of Painting and the Elements. In 1914 he organized the exhibition Kiltse ("The Ring") in Kiev, together with A.Ekster among others. In 1915 Bogomazov moved to the Caucasus
Caucasus
The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...
, where he worked as a teacher and painter.
In 1919 he taught at the First State Studio for Paintings and Decorative art in Kiev. From 1919 to 1920 he was the Head of the Department for Art Education in the Ukrainian Commissariat for Visual Art. At the same time he was the co-founder of the Ukrainian Agitprop Movement, and created designs for the Agitprom movement. From 1922 to 1930 he was taught at the Kiev Art Academy (KKHI) together with Vadim Meller, Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet 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 Constructivist movement...
, Victor Palmov
Victor Palmov
Victor Palmov was a Russian-Ukrainian painter and avant-garde artist from the David Burliuk circle.- Biographical dates :...
. In 1927 he was a founding member of the Association of the Revolutionary Masters of Ukraine (ARMU), together with D.Burliuk, V.Meller, V.Palmov, V. Yermilov
Vasiliy Yermilov
Vasyl Yermylov was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist and designer. His genres included cubism, constructivism, and neo-primitivism.-Biography:* Vasyl Yermylov was born 22 March 1894 in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine....
and others. In the same year he participated in the All-Ukrainian Exhibition Ten years October (Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa), together with Tatlin, Meller, Palmov, Epshtein among others.
Alexander Bogomazov died on June 3, 1930 in Kiev.
Literature
- A.Bogomazov. Painting and Elements. Comp.T.Popova.
Kyiv. 1996. - 152 p. ISBN 996-532-001-7, LC Control No.: 2003481219 - Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1880-1930 : kataloh tvoriv (Catalogue of works, Ukraine/English). Kiev: Harant, 1991. LC Control No.: 2003500490
- Mudrak, Myroslava M. “The Painted Surface in the Ukrainian Avant-garde: from Facture to Construction.” Pantheon 45 (1987): 138-43.
- Nakov, Andrei. “De l’expression futuriste au formalisme construit,” 13-24, in Alexandre Bogomazov, Jampol, 1880 – Kiev , 1930 . Musee d’Art Moderne, Refectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse . N.p.: Editions Arpap, 1991.
- Exhibition Avangarde & Ukraine. 6 May-11 Yuly 1993. Villa Stuck Munich, Germany. Catalogue, 200p: ISBN 3-7814-0346-7
- Exhibition L'art en Ukraine. 28 October 1993 - 17 January 1994. Musée des Augustins de Toulouse, France. Catalogue (160 p): ISBN 2-9018-2007-7
- John E.Bowlt. N.D.Lobanov-Rostovsky. Katalog-rezone Khudozhniki Russkogo Teatra / Catalogue-raisonne Painter's of Russian theatre. 1880-1930. Collection of Nikita and Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky
. 1994. - 528 p. ISBN 521-000-233-0, ISBN 978-521-000-233-4 - The phenomenon of the Ukrainian avant-garde, 1910-1935 / Phénomène de l’avant-garde ukrainienne, 1910-1935. Edited by Myroslav Shkandrij.
. 196 p. Winnipeg, Man. : Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2001. ISBN 978-0-88915-208-3 - Kyiv to Paris: Ukrainian Art in the European Avant-Garde, 1905-1930. By Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij, Department of German and Slavic Studies University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada