Information about Ksenia Boguslavskaya

Ivan Puni Velemir Khlebnikov reads poetry to Ksenia Boguslavskaya, 1915

Ksenia or Kseniya Boguslavskaya (1892-1972) - Russian avant-garde artist (Futurist, Suprematist) poet and interior decorator. Her husband Ivan Puni was also a notable painter. She seems to be the originator of the Mavva (symbol of the World Evil) in poems of Velemir Khlebnikov.

In 1914 together with Puni she published the cubo-futurist booklet Roaring Parnas.

In 1915 Boguslavskaya jointed the Supremus group of avant-garde artists (Liubov Popova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Varvara Stepanova, Aleksandra Ekster, Ivan Kliun, Nina Genke-Meller, Ivan Puni and others) that was led by the founder of Suprematism Kazimir Malevich.

In 1915-1916 with other artists (Suprematists) she worked in the Verbovka Village Folk Centre in the Ukrainian province near Kiev.

She was a member of Jack of Diamonds (1919) and Mir iskusstva (1916-1918).

In 1919 she and Puni escaped from the Soviets across the ice of the Gulf of Finland.

In 1919 to 1923 she lived in Berlin working as a scene designer for cabaret Blue Bird and for Russian Romantic Theater.

After 1923 she lived in Paris.

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Year 1972 (MCMLXXII
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Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modern art that flourished in Russia from approximately 1890 to 1930 - although some place its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960.
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Russian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Marinetti's manifesto. Russian futurism may be said to have been born in December 1912, when the St.
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Suprematism is an art movement focused on fundamental geometric forms (squares and circles) which formed in Russia in 1915-1916.

When Kasimir Malevich originated Suprematism in 1915 he was an established painter having exhibited in the Donkey's Tail and the
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A poet is a person who writes poetry. This is usually influenced by a cultural and intellectual tradition. Some consider the best poetry to be, to some extent, and universal, and to address issues common to all humanity; others are more absorbed by its particular, personal and
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In general, the interior of something refers to the space or part inside of it, excluding any kind of wall or boundary around its outside. It has different, more specific definitions in different contexts.
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Decorator can refer to:

Decorator pattern
Function decorators, in Python
Interior decoration
a Painter and decorator
The Decorator, a 1920 film starring Oliver Hardy

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Ivan Puni or Puny (Jean Pougny) (1894 - 1956) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Suprematist, Cubo-Futurist).

Biography

Ivan Puni was born in Kuokkala, Finland to a family of Italian origins^[1];
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Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian: Велими́р Хле́бников; first name also spelled Velemir; last name also spelled Chlebnikov, Hlebnikov, Xlebnikov), pseudonym of
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Year 1914 (MCMXIV
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Cubo-Futurism was the main school of Russian Futurism which imbued Cubism developed in Russia from 1913, after Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris and exhibited his works in Moscow.
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Supremus (1915-1916) was a group of Russian avant-garde artists led by the "father" of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich. It included Aleksandra Ekster, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova,Ivan Kliun, Ivan Puni, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Nina Genke-Meller, Ksenia Boguslavskaya and others.
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Liubov Sergeyevna Popova (Любовь Сергеевна Попова) (April 24, 1889 - May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and
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Nadezhda Udaltsova (Russian: Надежда Удальцова 1886 - 1961) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist) and painter.
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Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova (Russian: Варвара Фëдоровна Степанова 1894-1958), was a Russian artist associated with the 'Constructivist'
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Alexandra Ekster or Exter (Александра Экстер) (January 6, 1882 - March 17, 1949) was a Russian-Ukrainian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist), designer, and one
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Ivan Kliun (1870 - 1942) was a Russian painter, Avant-garde artist (Suprematist, Constructivist), graphic artist and sculptor.

Biography

Ivan Vasilyevich Kliun (Kliunkov) was born in 1870 in Bolshie Gorki village (near Kiev).
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Nina Genke or Nina Genke-Meller, or Nina Henke-Meller, (1893 - 1954) was a Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist, (Suprematist), designer, graphic artist and scenographer.

Biography

Nina Genke was born in Moscow.
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Ivan Puni or Puny (Jean Pougny) (1894 - 1956) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Suprematist, Cubo-Futurist).

Biography

Ivan Puni was born in Kuokkala, Finland to a family of Italian origins^[1];
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Kazimir Malevich

Self-Portrait, 1912
Birth name Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
February 23, 1878
Kiev, Russian Empire
May 15, 1935
Leningrad, Soviet Union

Painting
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

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Verbovka Village Folk Centre was an artisan cooperative in the village of Verbovka founded by Natalia Davidova in the Ukrainian province of Kiev. Natalia Davidova, one of the founders and the head of the Kiev Folk Center, was a talented Avant-garde artist descended from the ancient
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Jack of Diamonds (Russian: «Бубновый валет»), also called Knave Of Diamonds, was a group of artists founded in 1909 in Moscow.
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Year 1919 (MCMXIX
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Mir iskusstva (Russian: «Мир иску́сства», World of Art
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, Russian: (help info ) ; tr.
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