Exhibition of paintings by number 4: futurists, radiant, primitive in 1914 in Moscow

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From the magazine Ogonyok "№ 15. 1914. Exhibition ridiculous shapes and mysterious forms, the exhibition of electrical and pneumatic structures sentiment.
    To appreciate all this - need to see yourself. We reproduce three paintings, the most striking. Art. Hurwitz, Gursky did not spare himself in the "New Year", but had the nobility of his lady to remain incognito. The heart of the hero in the buttonhole of his frock coat with three telephone wires attached to the lady without a head (electric mood), while a rope connected to a kind of alcoholic way for the author of the picture. His eyes pierced the image of a long stick, leading back from the skull (death).
Very good "Military Orchestra Sergei Romanovich. We have long pondered where the bottom, where top paintings. Military bandmaster (I think the bottom picture), in which all sides are flying abandoned artist's hand wind instruments, gramophone records and other unknown objects, in terror sits on sentry-box. Perhaps, however, and there is another interpretation.
But the best work can rightly be called "Sunny Day" - town Larionov, this apostle of the Moscow "Luchists. The painting radiates all the swirl of bright, sun spots and strokes. No name in human language for the individual parts of this masterpiece, and only in the center dominates the grimly smiling strokes fateful word "of" .. The exhibition is number 4. We believe that there is a precise pass and its title - "house number 4".

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feeling that from time immemorial contemporaries did not understand art, and only then evaluated on their merits. I really hope that with modern art and more transparent, and we have good reason to Chaim ....