Word: popova
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the Revolution of 1917 was the last great efflorescence of the modernist spirit that is still not fully known about. This was partly due to the cold war. The main reason, however, was repression inside the Soviet Union. The work of artists like Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Lyubov Popova, Natalya Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Vladimir Tallin, Kasimir Malevich, Natan Altman, Naum Gabo and scores of others was a collectively ecstatic response to the possibilities of a new world, the Utopia that Lenin called "Marx plus electricity." It was international in range, drawing on the resources of the new movements...
...outskirts of Moscow. There, from floor to ceiling, cramming the rooms and narrow corridors, were about 380 paintings from the critical years of the Russian avantgarde, 1910-25: the work of such artists as Wassily Kandinsky. Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tallin. El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, Liubov Popova. An official storeroom of officially disapproved art? Not at all: a private collection belonging to a pipe-puffing, guitar-playing Greek named George Costakis...
...witness to a vanished moment in Russian culture, long disregarded and suppressed by the Kremlin. That it should now be accepted is perhaps proof that the original impact of these works is lost: they have become history. Art grows harmless before lilerature does, and the fact that artists like Popova and Ivan Klyun now find their way into a museum does nothing to stop the persecution of Russian writers...
...Leningrad after the war and bought some of the many Western paintings available there. But I bought these paintings because I loved them. People were telling me years ago that the painters I collected were not important. Maybe I had a few, like Chagall, but the rest, like Popova, Klyun and Rodchenko, were just followers. I didn't agree with them. It is not nice to say it, but I think I am somewhat unique in that I understood the meaning of these artists. That they are now recognized is for me a momentous happening...