1913
January. Third exhibition "The Knave of Diamonds" opens in St. Petersburg with the participation of D. Burlyuk Lentulova, Tatlin, Exter, Braque, Picasso, Rousseau, etc. In March, a shortened version of the exhibition will move to Moscow.
February. Society "Knave of Diamonds" will organize a debate in Moscow, which Mayakovsky and David Burliuk, talking about contemporary art, call for the destruction of museums, "these sarcophagi of art.
Larionov has organized an exhibition "Target" in Moscow with the participation Goncharova, Malevich, Pirosmani, Shevchenko and Chagall. In this exhibition, first exhibited "luchistskie" work Larionov.
April. Tatlin, visited Paris, met with reliefs of Picasso.
August. Huge Goncharova's solo exhibition opened in Moscow, a smaller version of the exhibition next year will move to St. Petersburg.
November. The last exhibition of the Youth League has opened in St. Petersburg with the participation of Burliuks, Exter, Filonov, Cluny, Malevich, Matyushina, Morgunova, Rozanova, Tatlin, a separate section of the exhibition was devoted to the works of Elena Guro, which in May at age 36, died of leukemia.
December. In the theater of the Luna Park in St. Petersburg put the tragedy Vladimir Mayakovsky in the design Filonova and schoolchildren.
In the same theater later staged opera "Victory over the Sun" (music Matyushina, texts Khlebnikov and Kruchenykh design Malevich). Later Malevich characterize this performance as an important step on its way to Suprematism.
At the exhibition "World of Art" exhibited Altman, Goncharova, Larionov, Tatlin, Yakulov etc.
The main outcome of this year can be regarded as strengthening the vanguard of the vector in painting, expanding it to the related art.
And, although the mass of criticism innovators are still subjected to abuse and ridicule, there are other opinions. Thus one critic wrote in a review of the exhibition "Youth Union": "The audience laughed. Laughed uncontrollably. They laugh because they do not understand. Russian people do a lot of laughter from the defensive misunderstanding.
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