Man + Air + Space
1913
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Location in museum
The Benois Wing
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Room 75 - Period Late 19th century – Early 20th century
- CategoryAbstraction
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Lyubov Popova’s oeuvre from 1913 to 1916 is a classical example of Russian Cubo-Futurism. The child of the marriage of French Cubism and Italian Futurism on Russian soil, Cubo-Futurism nevertheless possessed its own unique national specifics. Man + Air + Space is monumental, compositionally definite and complete. The artist is more concerned with expressing the unityof the volumetric-spatial structure than addressing the problems of movement and dynamics. All of this permits Man + Air + Space to be correlated to Cubism rather than to Futurism. The painting was first shown at the Store exhibition under the alternative title of Figure + House + Space. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 327.