Pavel Filonov
1883-1941

Artist Pavel Filonov, and the movement he founded, Analytical Art, are entirely unique to Russia. Born into poverty in Ryazan, Filonov moved with his family to St Petersburg in 1897, where he began his artistic education. He attempted three times to enter the Imperial Academy of Arts before he was accepted at a school attached to the academy. Leaving the school in 1910, he immediately entered the ‘Union of Youth’ group with Matyushin and Elena Guro, remaining a member until the group’s disbandment in 1914. By this stage Filonov was already developing his unique style, painting the grotesque with exceptional attention to detail, hence the term ‘analytic’, which was first used to describe the work in a 1912 article, ‘The Canon and the Law’. >> Read more

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