Lyubov Sergeevna Popova was born near Moscow. From 1907 she studied art and then went on a journey through Russia and Italy, where she studied Old Russian iconography and the art of the early Renaissance.
From 1912 she began her collaboration with Vladimir Tatlin in the studio "The Tower". At about the same time Popova travelled to Paris, where she was strongly influenced by Cubism in her encounters with Henri Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. She often photographed her works in order to send them as postcards to friends in her Russian homeland.
Her work, in which she dissolves the picture surface into different levels by using many lines, is considered one of the most important and independent contributions to the Russian avant-garde and Constructivism. From 1913 she travelled again to Italy and took over the criticism of the Futurists' relay painting. In 1921 she wrote a manifesto with other artists and turned her attention exclusively to the art of production.
"The role of the performing arts - painting, sculpture and even architecture - has come to an end, as it is no longer necessary for the consciousness of our time and everything that art has to offer can simply be classified as a relapse".
Popova now created fabric designs for textiles produced by the First State Textile Factory in Moscow and made designs for porcelain. She now applied all her artistic creativity to the design of contemporary industrially manufactured products. Lyubov Sergeevna Popova was only 35 years old. She died of a scarlet fever.
Lyubov Sergeevna Popova was born near Moscow. From 1907 she studied art and then went on a journey through Russia and Italy, where she studied Old Russian iconography and the art of the early Renaissance.
From 1912 she began her collaboration with Vladimir Tatlin in the studio "The Tower". At about the same time Popova travelled to Paris, where she was strongly influenced by Cubism in her encounters with Henri Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. She often photographed her works in order to send them as postcards to friends in her Russian homeland.
Her work, in which she dissolves the picture surface into different levels by using many lines, is considered one of the most important and independent contributions to the Russian avant-garde and Constructivism. From 1913 she travelled again to Italy and took over the criticism of the Futurists' relay painting. In 1921 she wrote a manifesto with other artists and turned her attention exclusively to the art of production.
"The role of the performing arts - painting, sculpture and even architecture - has come to an end, as it is no longer necessary for the consciousness of our time and everything that art has to offer can simply be classified as a relapse".
Popova now created fabric designs for textiles produced by the First State Textile Factory in Moscow and made designs for porcelain. She now applied all her artistic creativity to the design of contemporary industrially manufactured products. Lyubov Sergeevna Popova was only 35 years old. She died of a scarlet fever.
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