Born On January 8, 1883, Moscow - December 3, 1941, Leningrad - Russian, Soviet artist (artist-researcher, as he officially called himself), a poet, one of the leaders of the Russian avant-garde; founder, theoretician, practitioner and teacher of analytical art - a unique reforming direction of painting and graphics of the first half of the 20th century, which has rendered and has a noticeable influence on the creative moods of many contemporary artists and writers.
In 1912 Filonov wrote an article "Canon and Law", where the principles of analytical art are already clearly formulated: anti-cubism, the principle of "organic" - from the private to the general. Filonov does not detach himself from nature as Cubists, but seeks to comprehend it, analyzing the elements of form in their continuous development.
As his companions and colleagues in spirit, I would single out Kazimir Malevich and Velimir Khlebnikov.
Khlebnikov is a brilliant Russian poet and prose writer, one of the greatest figures of the Russian avant-garde. On the father's line the poet came from an old Russian merchant family. Khlebnikov also noted: "In my veins there is Armenian blood (Alabov) and Ukrainian blood, the blood of Zaporozhye Cossacks (Verbitsky)." It was the genius of new poetry and prose, the flow of "futurism."
Kazimir Malevich is a great painter, an abstractionist. He had Russian, Polish, Ukrainian blood. Philosopher. The founder of Suprematism - one of the earliest manifestations of abstract art of modern times.
For me, the picture of P.N. Filonov is a source of continuous reflection and admiration. His direction - analytical art --- I try to use it in my paintings.
MAQ/June 2018 /208