Word: filonova
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...Filonov had an excellent command of naturalistic styles, obvious in portraits of his sisters Yevdokiya Glebova (1915) and Maria Filonova (1924). But he chose to develop his analytical art by experimenting in pure abstraction, as in his Formula series, which illustrated war, nature or the universe. Yet whichever style suited his purpose, Filonov always pursued it with an idiosyncratic intensity. Rather than starting with the big picture and filling in the details later, Filonov started with the details, which he called "atoms," until the canvas or paper was full of painstakingly executed kaleidoscopic color cells. A pattern emerged organically...
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