Playing cards Olga Rozanova
Ten years ago, Marina Loshak on Neglinka was a remarkable exhibition of Olga Rozanova. This exhibition was produced the original booklet with very interesting article Faina Balakhovskaja, which gives an interesting version of the origin of the famous series of playing cards of the artist. Below - Some excerpts from this article.
"Playing cards" Olga Rozanova - a series of amazing and mysterious. It is not known exactly when they were written. Even more mysterious is the reason for choosing Rozanova so unexpected, even daring plot for its first large pictorial cycle. The series consists of ten images of card characters - kings, queens, jacks of all stripes and "simultaneous images of four aces."
But this is - not the main mystery Rozanov "Maps". Bright, bold card figures keep the secret, for many years, alarming researchers and visitors. Behind the mask guessed, find out the real person that has surrounded that interested and intrigued Rozanov. Pretty conventional face card characters cause many guesses, and the specific properties of a card hierarchy and anonymous stiffness (sometimes cruel) characteristics leave much room for imagination.
Previously it was believed that "Playing cards" were written in 1915, now's the time of their creation belongs to the early career of the artist, and determined it was about - between 1912 and 1914 ¬ mi. Graphic same cycle was completed in 1914, and in 1915 used in the book Kruchenykh and Alyagrova "Transrational gniga. Graphic and painted a series of slightly different composition. Picturesque images scattered after the death Rozanova on various collections, not all survived, but the archived data and directories, it is clear that they were no less than eleven. Two of the plot have been duplicated. Experienced difficult times in all seven picturesque subjects, but perished, we can imagine only more concise and less informative graphical counterparts. For unknown reasons, one can only guess, graphic cycle is not identical to the picturesque, it had disappeared one lady and was replaced by a single jack.
About Rozanova Little is known, but it seems that most of all she was interested in a fairly narrow range of heroes Petersburg avant-garde.
Following certain rules of divination, try to spread out maps and figure out who is hiding behind them.
"Jack of Hearts" - a special, unlike the other characters in the series. He boldly destroys the most important principle of cards - uniformity, even he has other attributes than the other jacks. Jack of Hearts - a very smart in a lacy shirt with wide cuffs, with a bird on his shoulder (other jacks, as expected, bearing halberds). In this picture - the only one of the series - there is a noticeable shift in futuristic forms. He reveals the mystery of Jack. Even if Kruchyonykh not been called before the "twisted" - the metaphor is obvious. In comparison with other photographs and portraits of striking not only the physical resemblance, but also well documented by photographs and portraits of the characteristic mobility of the character.
1. M. Larionov, Portrait of Kruchenykh. Lithograph. 1912
2. N. Kulbin Portrait Kruchenykh
3. O. Rozanova Jack of Hearts. 1913-1914. Slobodskoi Museum and Exhibition Center
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