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Body parts as letters on a page
12017-02-18T07:23:19-08:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283ab120412plain2017-02-18T07:23:40-08:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283abSimplified graphic lines representing eyes, lids, and nose in Larionov's oil painting of 1912 bring visual representation of a perceivable reality into direct, ambiguous relation with handwritten words and numbers below. NOTE: despite resemblance, the brows do not connect in a manner suggestive of a T, as in Larionov's otherwise nearly identical illustration "Akhmet" from Khlebnikov and Kruchenykh's Mirskontsa.
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12017-02-13T16:55:48-08:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283abMikhail Larionov. "Hapy Autumn," 19126Larionov's "neoprimivist" oil painting resembles his contemporary book cover designs, with crude, linear handwriting and facial featuresmeta2020-02-06T08:09:24-08:0011/20/1912In 1912, in parallel to his work on his Rayonist compositions, Mikhail Larionov painted several pictures in the spirit of “Infantile Primitivism”. Among them and affiliated to the Seasons cycle is the canvas “Ha[p]py Autumn”. The artist was captivated by children’s drawings and collected them over the entire course of his lifetime. A spontaneous naivety, borrowed by the artist from these same drawings, is reflected here in the expressive “simplicity” of the colour and the “clumsy” ungrammatical inscriptions. At the same time, the natural drawing of the lips, earrings and letters anticipates Larionov’s later work on Futurist books, where he achieved a similar union of word and image.St. Petersburg, RussiaRussian MuseumChristopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283ab
