Yakov Chernikhov
1889-1951

Whilst Yakov Chernikhov was, first and foremost, a pioneering architect, he was also a theoretician. Chernikhov had his own system of teaching which he described as Eksprimatika, a rule for new principles of drawing based on symmetry, the rhythm and relationship between component parts, constructions and colours. In the 1920s Chernikhov organised his own Research and Experimental Laboratory of Architectural Forms and Methods where he sought to teach a, “lighter method of the teaching of drawing and its laws”. The aim of this was not just to teach students the art of drawing but to strengthen their independence of thought, a concept that ran contrary to Soviet discipline and led to problems for the artist in the 1930s. It is this independence of thought that marked out the Russian avant-garde as a movement unique for its time. Chernikhov, the ‘architect-composer’ believed that art could free the mind.

WORKS FOR SALE BY THIS ARTIST

Elevators: Sustainable, Conical, Compact Mass
Complicated Figures (no. 35)
Composition with Dynamic Features and a Complicated Curving Body
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Complex configurations of transparent figures
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RECENTLY SOLD WORKS BY THIS ARTIST

Complicated Bending Forms (Strength and Movement)
The Constructed Play of Cylindrical, Conical and Spherical Volumes Amongst Themselves
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Untitled from the series Pantheons of the Great Patriotic War 1941-45
Untitled from the series Pantheons of the Great Patriotic War 1941-45
Composition on the Theme of a Sulphuric Acid Factory from the series Fundamentals of Modern Architecture
Nonconstructive Union of Planes from the series Fundamentals of Modern Architecture
Constructive Union of Planes from the series Fundamentals of Modern Architecture
I-JA Synthetic Silk Factory (first variant) from the series The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms
The Constructed Play of Cylindrical, Conical and Spherical Volumes Amongst Themselves that Supports the Through Thrust of Different Angles
The Constructed Play of Cylindrical, Conical and Spherical Volumes Amongst Themselves that Supports the Through Thrust of Different Angles
Demonstration of the Scope of a Cylindrical, Curved Form by Insertion of a Cylindrical Rod
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