Biography L Popova

One of the "Amazons" of the Russian avant -garde. Ivanovo Moscow province - May 25, Moscow Popova was born in a rich merchant family. Her father Sergei Maksimovich Popov, the owner of cloth factories, was the patron of art, a fan of theater and music. Mother Lyubov Vasilievna from the Genes' clan also belonged to a rich and enlightened merchant family, in which there were collectors, historians and cultural figures.

Popova’s brother Pavel in the family was four children after graduating from Moscow University was carried away by philosophy and psychology, and became a translator and teacher. The first teacher of Drawing Popova was a friend of his father, a professional artist K., after a short stay in Yalta, the family returns to Moscow and settles in his own mansion on Novinsky Boulevard Popova lives until the end of his life.

After graduating from the gymnasium S. Arsenyeva, he studies at the two -year -old general education courses A. Alferova according to the university philological program - Italian still life. Canvas, oil, gypsum, paper stickers. GTG L. Picturesque architectonics. Black, red, gray. Canvas, oil. Composition with figures. Paper, watercolor, white, graphite pencil. Yakhm L. Zhukovsky, and then goes to the private art school of K.

Yuon and I. Dudin, where they get acquainted with L. Prudkovskaya, they become friends, her sister N. Udaltsova, as well as A. Vesnin and V. in the summer and work in Krasnovidov, dreaming of creating his own studio, and writes small landscapes that show the fascination of Van Goghu and Neopimitivism. A trip as an artist was the important fact in the formation of Popova as an artist - in Kyiv, she was carried away by the works of ancient Russian painting and work M.

in the spring, together with her family, she briefly visits Italy, where she enthusiastically studies and sketches the works of Italians of the XIV and XV centuries, especially Giotto and Pinturikkio. Old masters and ancient Russian painters find themselves in the center of her attention. In the fall, along with Prudkovskaya, a studio is organized in Antipyevsky Lane in Moscow.

Soon S. Karetnikov, Udaltsova joined them, later V. in the studio worked a lot on nature, however, as contemporaries testify, work in this studio was not particularly successful. He studies new French painting in the Gallery of S. her work - combines the influence of Cezanne and Gothic art, perceived through the prism of Vrubel. A trip to Paris November, in order to study cubism, became a logical step in the creative evolution of Popova.

Together with Udaltsova, the friendship with which he was strongly visited by the Academy of the La Palet. It is possible that the choice of teachers was also dictated by their fame in Russia: the works were exhibited in - in the Salon of V. Poddebsky and at the first exhibitions of the Diamond Valet - in Paris Popova made friends with Mukhina, B. Ternovtsa, Ternovtsa.

Upon returning to Moscow in the summer, she created a cubotouristic series of compositions with naked figures “Composition with figures”. The GTG Dar G. GRM, in which the methodology of French cubism is firmly fused with the achievements of the Russian avant -garde, especially influencing Popova V. Just at that time, Popova begins to work in the studio on the Ostozhenka, 37 The so -called Morgunovka - the workshop of A.

Morgunov, who went to the Tatlin, arranged according to the model of the Parisian Academies. Here are the brothers A. Vesnina, A. Grishchenko, R. Falk, V. Khodasevich, V. Denisov, N. Serpinskaya and other artists. The Moscow Exposition of the Bunovy Valeta, February -March, became the exhibition debut for Popova, but already at the end of March, the artist left for Paris, from where in mid -April she went with her friends Mukhina and the Burmeister on a journey through Italy.

Young artists drove Italy from north to south, remained in Rome for two weeks. Their interests had a wide range - from antiquity to the Renaissance, but they were especially attracted by Italian painters, in particular Giotto and Guido da Siena. Contemporary artists did not go unnoticed: after the trail of Popova’s journey, she wrote “Italian still life” in the winter - Popova in her apartment on Novinsky Boulevard organized “weekly art meetings”.

In - the artist said her word in cubofuturism, which by the middle of X was at the peak of development mainly thanks to K. Malevich and Tatlin. This direction, which became the result of the combination of French cubism and Italian futurism, was reflected by the “first” and “last” futuristic exhibitions in Petrograd: “Tram in” February -March and “0.10” December - January at the first, she put up eleven works, and six at the last.

Three years of work in cubotourism were very productive for Popova. Its main attention was drawn to two genres - still life and portrait. Still lifes, which were written about two dozen, make up a series or cycles: “guitars” of timing, “violin” GTG, “watch” private collection, Moscow. Formally, the motives of “guitars” and “violins” were borrowed from marriage and Picasso, but were interpreted differently.A series of portraits - they are known about ten also carrying a certain imprint of the French cubism of the work of Albert Gles or Juan Gris, but the similarity is limited only by technical techniques, and the painting of the “groceric shop” from the timing marks the transition, not yet final, to the accuracy when the color planes are almost freed from plot loading.

But before that, Popova briefly paid tribute to the universal hobby of Russian avant-garde-a picturesque and spatial relief. Her "jug on the table" is a rare preserved example of plastic painting. Popov wrote about another such not preserved work that it was “laboratory experience of resolving a picturesque and output space-the problem of the parallel resolution of the issue of theatrical space” analyzed things from photographs.

OR GTG. This kind of compositions are called “Picturesque architectonics” - in March takes part in the exhibition “Shop”, organized by Tatlin, and in November - December - in the exhibition “Diamond Valet”. In winter - many Moscow avant -garde players come to meetings to Udaltsova’s apartment, like three years ago to Popova.

There, under the leadership of Malevich, the Schiremus society and its future magazine are being formed. Popova participates in the organization and financing of this enterprise. Another tribute to the influence of Malevich and Suprematism-sketches-collages for embroidery “Verbovka”, organized by N. They were shown at the second exhibition “Modern Decorative Art” December in March Popov, marrying the art historian B.

there both become typhoid, and the husband dies. After the disease and with Popov’s heart defect, he returns to Moscow in November and cannot start working for a long time. In it returns to painting and makes a number of “picturesque constructions” “picturesque structure”. GTG; "Design with a white crescent." GTG and private collection. Her picturesque evolution ends with the cycle of “spatial-power constructions”, after which Popova leaves the lessons with painting.

In-her works are exhibited at the 1st exhibition of the professional union of artists-artists of Moscow, at the 5th and state exhibitions-at the 3rd exhibition of Ryazan paintings and at the 1st State Exhibition of Arts and Science from Popov is immersed in teaching and theoretical activities. Since November, he teaches at VKhUTEMAS to the end, participates in the organization of training at the main department.

From the same time, until the end of his life, he has been working in Inkhuk, first in the section of monumental art, then in the working group "Objective analysis" or a group of vouccers; - Continues to work in printing, which has begun in covers, magazine illustrations, posters, with fabric sketches for the first thyceenabish factory, and designing women's clothing. The contribution of Popova to theatrical and decoration art is significant: it has become one of the creators of theatrical constructivism of the theatrical constructivism.

Popova’s life suddenly broke in - she infected her scarlet fever from a five -year -old son and died two days on May 25 after his death on May 23. Literature: D.