MY WRITERS SITE: 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.