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1882/83, Moscow - 1941, Leningrad

Голова

Head. 1930s

  • Paper, oil. Пост.: 1977 в дар от Е.Н.Глебовой, сестры художника (Ленинград)
  • Ж-9617

Velimir Khlebnikov called Pavel Filonov “a wonderful, afflicted artist, the little-known singer of urban suffering.” The city is the most direct and realistic space of the artist’s world. Unlike the intrepid urban utopias of the Futurists, however, the motif of the town implies urban suffering in Filonov’s art. The heroes of his canvases are the hapless and morose inhabitants of the city slums and the working-class districts. The theme of the degradation or degeneration of the personality under the onslaught of the aggressive and anti-humanistic metropolis sounds here with precision and asperity.


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