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...well worth the trouble. Few are familiar with Munter's work; that's a shame. Munter's significant contribution to the Blaue Reiter movement, a reaction to impressionism that stressed abstract forms, merits far greater attention than it has received until now. Her participation in this avant-garde group, however, does not constitute her major achievement; the Blaue Reiter fails to encompass the whole extent of Munter's quiet originality of style...
...Angeles, a fresh view of a vanished avant-garde...
...many ways, Russian art around the time of the Revolution of 1917 was the supreme model of avant-garde activity. It was consciously radical and hopeful. The artists hoped for the collapse of the old and saw themselves as collective makers of the new. Radical politics and radical art, for once, went hand in hand...
...appetite for information about early Russian modernism, however, grows daily in the West; and so the most interesting exhibition in the U.S. this summer is undoubtedly "The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This is the most intelligent survey of the subject yet done by any museum. It is not definitive, since its curators-Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman of LACMA -decided to use material only from Western collections. But it is admirably precise in historical judgment and informed as to selection; and, strange to say, it is the first...
...astonishing thing about Russian art of this period is its sustained inventiveness. Artists who based their work on the available prewar styles of avant-garde art - mainly Fauvism, cubism and futurism -were able to digest and develop them with tremendous speed and urgency, leaping beyond their prototypes like pole vaulters. To see this at work, one need only look at the development of Vladimir Tallin's sculpture after his first contact with Picasso's tin cubist Guitar, 1912, in Paris, or at the conviction with which Kasimir Malevich moved from cubism to a purely abstract painting...