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"No artistic success has given me as much pleasure as the sight of a peasant buying a length of material designed by me." - Liubov Popova
Her sure hand and brilliant colors emerged early in Popova's short career. She went to Paris in 1912 and studied with CUBIST painters. To this and FUTURISM'S influence she added the Synthetic Cubist use of incorporating writing into her images, but in her case Russian words in the Cyrillic alphabet. She described the "architectonic" value of a painting as "Energetics=direction of volumes+planes and lines or their vestiges+all colors." This formula, to the extent that it is comprehensible to an observer, is visible in a work such as The Traveler (1915-16), a painting in which faceted, volumetric forms in bold reds, blues, and greens are pressed against one another to give a sense of both controlled depth and energetic or dynamic movement. Certainly the Cubist forms and Futurist dynamic are visible, and trying to discern a recognizable hint, such as a profile or a glove, is endlessly challenging. Before she died of scarlet fever, at the age of 35, Popova had joined those Russian revolutionary artists who renounced easel painting in favor of practical applied and industrial art. She triumphantly designed for the theater, textiles (about which she comments in the quotation above), and what she called "Space-Force Constructions," first using plywood, an industrial material, and covering it with mechanistic forms. These developed into extraordinary stage sets built up on a framework of scaffolding and the principle of functionality--ideas copied many times since. Her influence on CONSTRUCTIVISM was important.
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