Russian Avantgarde
Director Alexander Krivonos
Countries Russian Federation
Duration 0 min
Synopsis
The Russian Museum's painting and graphic arts collection in St. Petersburg is famous all over the world. The film tells the story of Russian Avant-garde art since the 1917 Revolution. It is a report on the fate of Nikolai Punin, the theorist on this Avant-garde movement, who, for a long period of time, was responsible for the Russian Museum's department dedicated to new trends. It was due to his efforts that avant-garde artists' works (such as, for example, those of Kasimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and Vladimir Tatlin) survived the Stalinist repression in the Museum's warehouse.
The Russian Museum's painting and graphic arts collection in St. Petersburg is famous all over the world. The film tells the story of Russian Avant-garde art since the 1917 Revolution. It is a report on the fate of Nikolai Punin, the theorist on this Avant-garde movement, who, for a long period of time, was responsible for the Russian Museum's department dedicated to new trends. It was due to his efforts that avant-garde artists' works (such as, for example, those of Kasimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and Vladimir Tatlin) survived the Stalinist repression in the Museum's warehouse.