Lidiya Masterkova
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, USSR - May 12, 2008, Saint Laurent, France
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painter, non-conformist artist in USSR.
Masterkova graduated from the Surikov Art Academy in 1950. A dedicated abstractionist, Masterkova was associated with the Lianozovo Circle along with Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Nemukhin
Vladimir Nemukhin
Vladimir Nemukhin is a Russian artist. Nemukhin studied under the direction of Petr E. Sokolov and later Pavel Kuznezov)...
, a diverse group of artists and poets who fought steadfastly and uncompromisingly for creative freedom. Masterkova was one of the significant personalities in the Moscow art world of the 1960s. Masterkova’s work in the early 1960s included loosely painted watercolors in bright colors. Soon after, she darkened her palette and began to incorporate lace and fabric into her compositions. In the mid 1960s, her work was characterized by abstract compositions created with a palette knife in which dark, craggy forms contrasted with a light background. By the early 1970s, these dark, brooding forms were still in evidence, but superimposed by collages of white circles bearing the numerals 0, 1, and 9. she also creates subtle, circular, black and white compositions by manipulating India ink or watercolor on wet paper, often affixing collage elements cut out of white paper. She exhibited her works in the first shows of nonconformist art, including the 1st autumnal review "In the open air" ("Bulldozer Exhibition
Bulldozer Exhibition
Bulldozer Exhibition was an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo urban forest by Moscow avant-garde artists on September 15, 1974...
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After a 1974 'Bulldozer Exhibition
Bulldozer Exhibition
Bulldozer Exhibition was an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo urban forest by Moscow avant-garde artists on September 15, 1974...
' in Belyaevo she moved to France in 1975 where she worked till the end of her life. She died at 81.
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- Lidiya Masterkova, KommersantKommersantKommersant is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Russia. , the circulation was 131,000.- History :The newspaper was initially published in 1909, and it was closed down following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the introduction of censorship in 1917.In 1989, with the onset of press...
№ 79(3896), 13.05.2008 - Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation http://www.kolodzeiart.org
- Art4.ru Contemporary Art Museum http://www.art4.ru/en/artists/detail.php?ID=1544