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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

Formula of Spring, 1920, Pavel Filonov (and other works) because this was an artist who loved art for the sake of art.



Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov ( January 8, 1883 – December 3, 1941) was a Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet.  In 1908, he entered St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, from which, he was expelled in 1910.
In the autumn of 1916, he enlisted for service in World War I, and served on the Romanian front. Filonov participated actively in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and served as the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Committee of Dunay region.

In 1929, a large retrospective exhibition of Filonov art was planned at the Russian Museum; however, the Soviet government forbade the exhibition from going forward. From 1932 onward, Filonov literally starved but still refused to sell his works to private collectors. He wanted to give all his works to the Russian Museum as a gift so as to start a Museum of Analytical Realism. He died of starvation on December 3, 1941 during the Siege of Leningrad.


Filonov Selfportrait 1921.JPG



 

A Man and a Woman
1912


 

Peasant Family
1915


 

Flight to Egypt
1918


 

Ships
1919


 

Worker in a Cap


 

Collective-Farm Worker
1931


 
People


 

Easter
1912



 
MOPR. Prison
1927


 

Man and Woman


 

West and East
1912



 

They Who Have Nothing to Lose


 

Pancake Tuesday


 

Rebirth of a Man


 

Formula of Spring
1920


 

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