Knave of Diamonds "

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«The Knave of Diamonds»
 
Jack of Diamonds "- Association of Moscow artists, leading the beginning of the same name of the exhibition, organized in 1910 by His members had VD and DD Burliuks, Natalia Goncharova, Pyotr Konchalovsky, A. . Kuprin, N. Kulbin, Mikhail Larionov, AV Lentulov, Kazimir Malevich, Ivan Mashkov, R. Falk, V. Rozhdestvensky, etc. The name belongs to MF . Larionov, who apparently had in mind the negative interpretation of the image in the spirit of the ancient French interpretation of a playing card: Jack of Diamonds, a crook, crook. Explaining his choice, the artist said: "Too many pretentious name ... as a protest, we decided, the worse the better - what could be more absurd than the" Jack of Diamonds "?".

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For the artists association is characterized by pictorial and plastic quest in the spirit of post-impressionism. Bubnovovalettsy have developed a kind of pictorial and plastic system (the so-called Russian sezannizm), where the principles of Cubism and Fauvism, implemented with the influence of Russian folk art - lubok, painting on wood and ceramics, and paintings trays and signage. Of all the genres of painting, they expressed a preference for a still life, landscape
portraits, solving the problem of constructing three-dimensional shapes on a plane with the help of color, the transfer of "real" nature, its invoice tangibility.
At the exhibition "Jack of Diamonds" in addition to paintings by members of the association devoted to works of living in Munich, Kandinsky and AG Yavlensky, as well as Frenchmen Jean Braque, C. Van Dongen, F. Valotona, M. Vlaminck, A. Glez , R. Delaunay, A. Derain, A. Marquet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, A. Russo, P. Signac, and other famous artists, were held open debates on the fate of modern art, read the reports, etc. However, the very association corroded by internal divisions, was shortlived. In 1911 he went from the most radically-minded artists (Burliuks, Goncharova, Larionov and others), oriented in their work on the samples of folk and primitive art, kubofuturizma, abstract art. They organized an independent exhibition Poldi epatage called "Donkey's Tail". In 1916-17 gg. Another group of artists, followers of the moderate and committed to a more traditional easel painting (Konchalovsky, Mashkov, Kuprin, Lentulov, Christmas, Falk) has passed into the "World of Art". After this "Jack of Diamonds" virtually ceased to exist.

Вложение 18655 SP Konchalovsky, artist	Вложение 18665 DD Burliuk, artist	Вложение 18675 R. Falk, artist
Вложение 18685 I. Mashkov, artist	Вложение 18695 Natalia Goncharova, artist	Вложение 18795 Mikhail Larionov, artist
Вложение 18805 A. V. Lentulov, artist	Вложение 18815 K. Malevich, artist	Вложение 18825 AV Kuprin, artist