Stand-alone artists

Pavel Filonov. 1920-1922.
The Formula of the Universe.

Among the hundreds of names participating in the Russian Avant-garde art, several stand out on their own. These artists have accomplished huge break-through discoveries and innovations in the art. They were founders of schools of thought, teachers, writers, and accomplished theoreticians of art. To this group belong the artists Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, Wassily Kandinsky and others. You will find them under the "Stand-alone Artists" in the "Movements & Groups" menu.

The schools of these stand-alone artists are counted among the Movements, and are proclamation and continuance of their teachings. Thus the school of Malevich is the UNOVIS movement (the affirmers of New Art, as they called themselves); Filonov's school is the movement called MAI (Masters of Analytical Art); and Matiushin's school is the ZORVED movement. Sterligov's school falls outside the time frame for the Russian Avant-garde, and has no specific name. Kandinsky has left Russia and participated in different important art educational institutions and movements abroad, but had no specific school among the Russian artists.

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