Natalia Goncharova, Laundry, 1912

·      Women were unusually important in the Russian avant-garde

·      They were seen as equals

·      It is short lived with Leno’s arrival to power

·      Cubist

·      You can recognize what things are

Natalia Goncharova, Portrait of Mikhail Larionov, 1913

·      They had a lifetime partnership

·      Didn’t marry until they were in their 70s

·      Both of them were in the Blue writer

Natalia Goncharova, Le Coq d’Or (curtain), 1914

 The Traveler, c. 1915

·      Born near Moscow 

·      She died young

·      She absorbed cubism style very well

Russian Avant-Garde

Vavara Stepanova, Design for Sports Clothing, 1923

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self Portrait with Amber Necklace, 1906

·      Paula Moterson Becker

·      Born into upper middle class

·      She has a very short career

·      Did 400 drawings and painting

·       Worpswede village attracted artists and writers

·      She meets Otto Moterson here  

·      She had hostel critical response to her work

·      Parents wanted her to be a teacher

·      Studied in England

·      She goes to Paris

·      She sees the work of all the great artists

·      She was really impressed with Rodins sculptures

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Reclining Mother and Child, 1906

 German Avant-Garde

Gabriele Mûnter, Boating, 1910

Kandinsky was her teacher

·      Kandinsky fell in love with Gabriella and made her drop out of his class when his wife came around

·      Murnau town where artists went to get away

·      Very much avant-garde

·      Kandinsky seen as the most important figure

·      Gabriella is rowing

Gabriele Mûnter, Snow and Sun, 1911

·      Post Impressionist looking

Gabriele Mûnter, Portrait of Marianne von Werfekin, 1909

·      Marianne von Werfekin and her had a very stressful relationship

Marianne von Werfekin, Country Road, 1909

·      Influenced by Gogan