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Natalia Gontcharova Natalia Sergeevna Gontcharova ( June 4, 1881 - October 17, 1962) is a prominent Russian Cubo-Futurism painter and costume designer. Biography Natalia was born in Nagaevo village near Tula, Russia in 1881. She studied sculpture at the Moscow Academy of Art, but turned to painting in 1904. She was deeply inspired by the primitive aspects of Russian folk art and attempted to emulate it in her own work while incorporating elements of fauvism and cubism. Together with her husband Mikhail Larionov she first developed Rayonism. They were the main progenitors of the pre-Revolution Russian avant-garde organising the Donkey's Tail exhibition of 1912 and showing with the Blaue Reiter in Munich the same year. The Donkey's Tail was conceived as an intentional break from European
art influence and the establishment of an independent Russian school
of modern art. However, the influence of Futurism is much in evidence
in Goncharova's later paintings. Initially preoccupied with icon
painting and the primitivism of ethnic Russian folk-art, Goncharova
became famous in Russia for her Futurist work such as The Cyclist
and her later Rayonnist works. As leaders of the Moscow Futurists,
they organised provocative lecture evenings in the same vein as
their Italian counterparts. Goncharova was also involved with graphic
design - writing and illustrating a book in Futurist style.
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