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Two Russias

Petrograd and Moscow, a few years apart: one country, two opposite ways to paint it.

Sources: Wikipedia: Boris KustodievWikipedia: Kazimir Malevich

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In 1916 Boris Kustodiev lost the use of his legs. 'Now my whole world is my room,' he wrote, and went on painting a bright, cheerful, well-fed Russia through the Revolution.

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In the early 1910s Kazimir Malevich was showing with the Russian avant-garde, drawing on peasant art and the new Cubism. In 1915 he gave up subjects altogether for pure geometric shapes.

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Opposite ways to paint

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