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Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova(Russian: Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва; 3 July 1881 – 17 October 1962) was a Russian avant-gardeartist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov. She was a founding member of ...
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was born on 21 June 1881 to Sergei Nikolaevich Goncharov and Ekaterina Ilinichna Belyaeva in the town of Negaevo in Russia.1 Her father was an architect and mathematician.2 Her mother’s family had close links with the priesthood, and her maternal grandfather taught at the Moscow Theological Academy.3 Raised and educated largely by her mother and maternal ...
Jun 12, 2019 · Of all the Russian avant-garde artists of the 20th century, Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) was the most experimental. ... 1843 magazine | The destructive quest for the buried treasure of the ...
Jun 5, 2019 · Natalia Goncharova with 'Basic makeup for an actress of the Futurist theatre', published in Teatr v karrikaturakh, 21 September 1913 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, photo: Andrei Sarabianov It has taken a long time for many women artists to gain the recognition that they deserve, but to some extent, Natalia Goncharova (1881 –1962) is the exception.
- Childhood
- Education and Early Training
- Mature Period
- Later Period
- The Legacy of Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Goncharova was born in the town of Nagaevo in the Tula Province in Russia to an elite Russian family. Her father, Sergei Goncharov, worked as an architect and was a descendent of Aleksandr Pushkin, the legendary poet and novelist credited as the patriarch of Russian literature and a revered symbol of national identity. Natalia was named aft...
In 1901, Goncharova enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture focusing on sculpture. Studying with Pavel Trubetskoy, a sculptor influenced by the Impressionists and in particular by the work of Auguste Rodin, she won a silver medal for her work in 1903. At school, Goncharova began the most significant personal and ar...
In 1910 she was one of the founding members of the Jack of Diamonds, Moscow's first exhibiting group of avant-garde Russian painters. Most of the participants had been expelled from the conservative Moscow Institute for painting in the Post-Impressioniststyle. That year also saw Gonchrova's first solo exhibition that included twenty paintings, and ...
In spite of deeply felt mutually nationalistic sentiments, Goncharova and Larionov moved to Paris in 1914, where Goncharova extended her work in the theater and became primarily known for her stage design. Diaghilev, who had founded the acclaimed Ballet Russes in Paris, invited her to work on his production of The Golden Cockerel, based upon Pushki...
Goncharova's Rayonist and Futurist work influenced many of her Russian contemporaries, including Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin. In turn, two major new art movements were coined in Russia, Suprematism and Constructivism. Figurative scenes that had been fragmented into shards by Goncharova and Larinov became more and more abstract with only ge...
- Russian
- June 21, 1881
- Nagaevo, Tula Province, Russia
- October 17, 1962
Throughout her long and varied career, Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962) challenged the limits of artistic, social and gender conventions. By the age of 32, she had already established herself as a leader of the Russian avant-garde. Soon after, she achieved international fame for her vibrant costume and set designs for the Ballets Russes in Paris.
Ibid., 13. Ibid., 295. Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian: Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва; 3 July 1881 – 17 October 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov.
