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Russian art movements

  • Constructivism (art)Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko founded Constructivism in 1915. This movement emerged from the ashes of World War I and Russian Futurism.
  • Socialist realismOn the 25th of October 1917, Bolshevik forces seized control of Russia and immediately began reshaping its cultural landscape.
  • PeredvizhnikiFourteen students walked out of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg during the year 1863. They found the rules of that institution to be deeply…
  • Russian avant-gardeThe year 1890 marked the beginning of a massive artistic shift in Russia. Artists began to reject traditional academic styles that had dominated the Russian…