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1892 - 1956

Jean Pougny

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A Russian Italian-born artist who worked in France for many years. Repin’s pupil and a brilliant representative of the Russian avant-garde in the early period of his creative work, Jean Pougny worked in the manner of Fauvism and lyrical primitivism in the longer Parisian period of his career.

He was the organizer and sponsor of such avant-garde exhibitions as “Tram B” and the last futuristic exhibition “0, 10”. In collaboration with his wife, artist Ksenia Boguslavskaya, he wrote a manifesto declaring the liberation of creativity from semantic content. Together with Malewicz, he gave a lecture on “Cubism – Futurism – Suprematism” and became a founding member of the union “Freedom to Art” and the community “0, 10”.

He was a professor at the Petrograd free art workshops, collaborated with the newspaper “The Art of the Commune”, at the invitation of Marc Chagall taught at the Vitebsk Folk art school. Having emigrated to Germany, he wrote a controversial book “Modern Art”, which contained not only biased analysis, but also sharp criticism of non-subject matter.

Becoming a French citizen, he was twice awarded the Legion of Honor. Pougny’s work of different periods is represented at many museums around the world – except for Russia; those are in France, the United States, Great Britain and other countries.

Key ideas:

– The evolution of Pougny’s work was mostly defined by his constant inner contradictions. His emotional, close to expressionistic artistic temperament made him suddenly shift from the early style of synthetic Fauvism to canvases in the style of analytical, non-objective art. However, later he returned to colorful still lifes and scenes.

– Being greatly inspired by the introduction of real materials into futuristic and cubist collages, he created relief designs and subsequently transferred elements and principles into abstract pictorial compositions.

– Before the exhibition “0,10” (1915, Saint Petersburg), Pougny together with Malewicz, Boguslavsky, Kliun described the artistic credo common to them, “Paintings are a new concept of real but abstract elements, and therefore they are devoid of customary meanings”. In collaboration with Kazimierz, Pougny wrote lecture-report “Cubism-Futurism-Suprematism”, which asserted the “topness” of the new art.

– In the Berlin period of his creative career (early 1920s), Pougny considered it necessary to declare his condemnation of his own Suprematist achievements, which, from the point of view of art history, does not cancel or diminish their values.

Jean Pougny

On Artist

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Suprematism

Cubism

Futurism

Neo-primitivism

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Mark Shagal

David Burliuk

Albert Marche

Fernand Leger

artists

Ilya Repin

Paul Cezanne

Nikolay Kulbin

Kazimir Malevich

Pierre Bonnard

Edward Vuillard

By Artist

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Abstract expressionism

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Fernand Leger

Amede Ozanfan

Gino Severini

Sonya Delaunay

artists

Ksenia Boguslavskaya

Ivan Klyun

Nadezhda Udaltsova

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Mediums: oil, canvas, collage. Location: The Collection of the Center G. Pompidou, Paris (France).

1944

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The Collection of the Center G. Pompidou, Paris (France).

1923 - 1924

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Материалы: масло, холст. Местонахождение: находится в собственности семьи художника (Франция).

1914 - 1915

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Mediums: paper, gouache, pencil. Location: The Collection of the Center G. Pompidou, Paris (France).

1921 - 1922

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Mediums: gouache, pencil, paper. Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

1919 - 1920

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg (Russia).

1919

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia).

1919

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Mediums: wood, oil, cardboard, zinc. Location: The Tate Modern Gallery, London (the UK).

1915 - 1916

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Материалы: масло, холст. Местонахождение: находится в Музее Стедейлик, Амстердам (Нидерланды).

1915

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The Collection of the Center G. Pompidou, Paris (France).

1915