Russian avant

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The exhibition, which I started writing - Exhibition in Petrograd artists in all areas over the five years 1918 - 1923 - by itself, in my opinion - an outstanding event and very large-scale presentation of avant-garde after the Revolution. Total was attended by over 260 artists and something about 1600! products. Malevich, for example, at this exhibition his work was exhibited along with his disciples under the name UNOVIS. Only later, photographs, found that among others, under the name UNOVIS was shown and his "Portrait Matyushina."

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The exhibition certainly caused a scandal and a fierce controversy in the press. What is only a statement by Sergei Yutkevich: "The only good canvas for the entire exhibition - at" UNOVIS "absolutely pure, white, good soil. It can still do something." - This canvas was called "Supremacist mirror" and was the personification of the manifesto Malevich (see above).

I scanned a few publications devoted to the exhibition, but I am afraid that some of the same upside down (in a different way does not work). Now if the "evil administrator" again would be good, and they turned, eh? Please!

And yet, investment in me as a lack of uniformity in invested "- Article N. Punina (##35, 36, 39, 40),#41 - Statement Mansurov

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Maroussia,
Good and interesting topic. Can someone be interested in text ...
  "As you know, meeting old Russian icons, cleared from the records, the culture of a new era occurred in the early twentieth century. It is a philosophical idea of the Silver Age has shown overt interest in the ancient images, trying to comprehend the depth of the Orthodox" theology in color "...
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  http://www.pravoslavie.ru/jurnal/30718.htm

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I wrote it was a message about Tatlin, but remembered that this year 120 years since the birth of Alexander Drevin.

Here I have kept this autobiography:
(while I'm looking for pictures, who could complement)

Born 3 /VI /1889 in the town of Wenden used. Lifland province (now Latvia). City Wenden is located in the so-called Livonian Switzerland; there and spent early childhood up to six years.
Neighborhood Wenden carved with deep ravines, beautiful deep the length of the river Gauja. I remember sledding in the mountains, beautiful roads hearse, going down in length, the rocky shores of the river; Wenden himself all stone, white stone houses, around the mass of the gardens.
When I was six years old, my father in Pisco better earnings moved to Riga, where he soon entered one of the factories of Riga.
Outskirts of the city of Riga, where the workers' quarters, completely devoid of vegetation, instead of which are black slag everywhere wasteland and blank walls of plants.
The contrast with Wenden was so great that imprinted in me forever. This corresponded to a new environment and change our lives.
The hardships of life of my parents, their constant anxiety for his life could not affect me. The influence of the street on which my parents were busy working, they could not protect me, it was hard, especially in the outskirts of Riga, and their apashestvo all know, but some self-preservation instinct stopped me in the decisive moments.
After graduating from something as elementary school, I follow a dream of my childhood, entered the Nautical School.
Among my friends, where there were quite a few hooligans, were conscious revolutionary workers, who dragged me into their midst, giving me certain instructions. I served them, often without knowing where its origin.
In 1906 I was arrested. Nightmarish reaction in the Baltic region, where the victims fell, most of my friends made me leave at the time of Riga.
I went to the Smolensk province, where he stayed for six months.
In 1907, the fall, I returned to school. Among my friends was one who was engaged in a little painting. This is a newer hobby so captured me that I forgot the Maritime School, and began to sketch from nature, without guidance, as my companion was also a beginner, and none of the artists we did not know. I was then 19 years old, I knew nothing about painting and have not seen a single picture.
In autumn 1908 I went with a friend in Riga Art School, whose director was an artist Purve. In school, I knew the Impressionists.
In 1914 I was evacuated with his parents in Moscow, where we settled for Butyrskaya Gate and where I began to work independently.
D 1917, I was not familiar with Russian artists, entirely brought up at a meeting of Shchukin.
The rapprochement with the Russian artists who came after the 9 th Latvian infantry regiment raised me on social work in the Latvian National Commissioner, at the same time I took part in the exhibition in the Kremlin hosted by arrows, where I put primitives and non-figurative work.
After the 1-th exhibition of the Union of Artists of Moscow, where I first put up with Russian artists, VE Tatlin invited me to the Department of Fine Arts, where I worked until 1920.
In 1920 I was invited to the first public workshop, where he worked until the close VKhUTEMAS.
Since 1923, I returned to painting from nature. During this time mnyu written sketches near Moscow, the Urals, Altai.
Altai particularly influenced me with their colorful nature, big spaces, his extraordinary intensity changed my life.
Since the autumn of 1933 I again started to work hard in the field of landscape and returned to nature.
(As amended V. Starodumova Materials RGALI)
....
Executed in 1938.

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One of my favorite artists. Passing through passion primitivism and bespredmetnichestvom, found his unique, immediately recognizable style, which did not leave until his tragic death. By the way, read it, but have not seen the original, that in the sentence, along with charges of counterrevolutionary activity was recorded and for "formalism in art."
He, of course, one must look alive, the picture that the screen that the book can not pass and the proportion of the expressivity, which is present in his works.

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Сообщение от qwerty

One of my favorite artists. Passing through passion primitivism and bespredmetnichestvom, found his unique, immediately recognizable style, which did not leave until his tragic death.

+100!

I also love Drevin. Moreover, it seems to me that the artist rather strangely undervalued, I am sure that the investment plan it will play in the coming years.
In the meantime, get aesthetic pleasure from such parachutes here

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It is known that the arrest Hope Udaltsova Drevin pictures saved from confiscation by giving them their own. They were first exhibited in Moscow in 1971

After an optimistic autobiography, I want to quote from the book of Catherine Drevin Hope Udaltsova M., 1997, in which the published diaries of Hope Udaltsova:

In the night of 16 to 17 January 1938, was arrested Alexander Drevin. He left without even putting on his leather coat, which was so still remained in the apartment, said Udaltsova: "Do not worry, I'll be back" - and vanished forever.
Diary N. Udaltsova January 18, 1938:
"What happened, what happened? Two days in a fog. Where to go, someone shouting? Tend innocent man. Save the man who never had nothing to do with any Western people as they arrived, nor with Latvians: Jakub only one, and then, when arrests among the lat. artists. Said that there is nothing to worry Drevin, never with anyone else was involved. And old parents, too, is nothing. What do I do what I do? I have one in the whole world, and no money, and where, to whom shall I go? All have turned away from me. Yesterday found the strength to go to Yakubu. He was shocked. He said not to tell anyone. And, perhaps, this fellow (who conducted the search and seizure) is not telling the truth for comfort. When nothing was found, and the protocol was drawn up, that's nothing, we sighed with relief, and suddenly: "You will have to go with me for a long time you do not delay." And I - with care:
- Do not worry, nothing is found, through two or three days he will return, do not worry.
- No, - I said - he was a Soviet man, threw home, parents, and now!
- Do not you think that this may be due to other, - said the assistant, and neither the left.
And now, I wrote a letter to Yezhov, and I was calm and clear: Drevin not guilty of anything, and an innocent person may be convicted "*

* The above-mentioned letter to Yezhov - one of a countless number of pardon, which Udaltsova writing until 1956 Hope Udaltsova not gone to the evacuation, she believed that Alexander Drevin, shot on Feb. 26, 1938, was alive.

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Сообщение от qwerty

By the way, read it, but have not seen the original, that in the sentence, along with charges of counterrevolutionary activity was recorded and for "formalism in art".

In the directory "Alexander Drevin in museum collections" are excerpts from the interrogation Drevin.
For example:

V. - What is your expressed hostility to the Soviet system?
Q - My hostility to Soviet power was expressed in the fact that I
supported the formalist position in the art and counteracted
socialist realism.
And when it was instructed: follow the path of socialist realism,
I considered myself in the position of the offended the Soviet authorities, which does not
work freely and oppresses creativity of the artist.
And only since 1932, I gradually, with great difficulty in correcting
a formalist tendencies.
Q - Tell me what specific work you as an artist with written
counterrevolutionary distortions?
O. - I wrote a series of paintings that are counter-revolutionary
distortion, is: "Jumpers", "Roe", "Unemployed", "Girl" and
"The collective farm landscape.
VA - The essence of counter-revolutionary distortion of your paintings?
A. - That is, for example, painting "Girl on the farm" rather than to portray a fun, prosperous, joyful collective farm life, I drew a heavy, sad, sad reality of the collective farms, displaying it in the movie "Kolkhoznaya girl."
VA - The investigation has evidence that you went to the collective and
carried out the work of nationalist order.
A. - I do not deny it. I talked to the collective farmers about the life of Latvians in
Soviet Union. Remembered how the people live in Latvia. About Latvia I
said, as his homeland.
Q - So, you spent a nationalist agitation?
A. - Yes. I spent the nationalist agitation in the collective farms.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

In the catalog of Alexander Drevin in museum collections "are excerpts from the interrogation Drevin.
For example:

COP! I, unfortunately, did not see this directory. And in whose publication are those passages?
Strangely enough, but the archives represssirvannyh so far show only to relatives and often incomplete (some pages are questioning blind white sheet)

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Сообщение от Maroussia

And in whose publication are those passages?

Tomorrow climbing out of the house-just tell.

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Pavel Kondratiev

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