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"Rayonnist Composition"
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 Rayonnist
Composition
In 1913, Larionov and Goncharova
developed what may have been the first original Russian school
of non-objective painting, Rayonnism. According to the first Rayonnist
manifesto, written by Larionov and Goncharova in 1913, "The style
of Rayonnist painting that we advance signifies spatial forms
which are obtained arising from the intersection of the reflected
rays of various objects, and forms chosen by the artist's will.
The ray is depicted provisionally on the surface by a colored
line. That which is valuable for the lover of painting finds its
maximum expression in a rayonnist picture. The objects that we
see in life play no role here, but that which is the essence of
painting itself can be shown here best of all--the combination
of color, its saturation, the relation of colored masses, depth,
texture." (for a full text, see Bowlt, pp. 87-91). Like cubism,
however, the non-objectivity of rayonnism initially grew out the
analytic deconstruction of real objects, evolving gradually into
pure abstraction, as in this composition of Larionov which probably
dates from 1913.
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