Word: avtonomova
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...Moscow at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts' Museum of Private Collections has proved such a critical and popular success that it has been extended through March 12. "The show proved even more of a landmark event than we expected," says the Pushkin's private collections director, Nataliya Avtonomova...
...individual technique: when he dabbled in Cubism, as in his Flowers of the World Blooming (1915), he did so like no one else. "Picasso was preoccupied in Cubism with finding forms and artistic language to render an object," maintains Avtonomova. "Filonov's concern was that object's philosophical core." She sees Filonov as an artist-scholar who first defines a key idea, then gears his vision, palette and expression to that idea...
...which he called "atoms," until the canvas or paper was full of painstakingly executed kaleidoscopic color cells. A pattern emerged organically as he linked each atom with its neighbors in a web of shapes and lines. "Each part of his every picture is a fulfilled picture by itself," says Avtonomova...
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