(ENG below) Today I introduce you to a Moscow artist of the 1930s, Yuri Pimenov (Yuri Pimenov). The first painting in the gallery—his “calling card”—is “New Moscow” (1937). However, it merely opens the series. Seven years later, Pimenov painted “Frontline Road,” in which, according to some art critics, the same young woman is depicted. Another appears sixteen years later.
One might wonder, what should an artist do, having found his creative path after all the hurdles and earned fame? Yuri Ivanovich behaved unconventionally: he began destroying all his previous paintings in his possession, and even took home museum pieces he had created, promising to return or bring new ones, and destroyed those as well.
In the end, many of his paintings remain only in photographs…
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(ENG) Today, a Moscow artist of the 1930s, Yuri Pimenov. The first painting in the gallery, his “calling card,” is *New Moscow* (1937). Yet this work merely opens the series. Seven years later, Pimenov painted *Frontline Road*, in which, according to some art critics, the same young woman appears.
One might think that an artist who has found his creative path after all his struggles and gained renown would settle into his success. But Yuri Ivanovich took an unconventional route: he began to destroy all his earlier works that he still possessed. He even reclaimed pieces from museums, promising to return or replace them with new ones, only to destroy those as well.
As a result, many of his paintings now exist solely in photographs…
Posts like this are grouped under the hashtag #artrauflikes, and all 126 can be found on beinginamerica.com in the “Art Rauf Likes section (unlike Facebook, which tends to overlook almost half of them).
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