Rozanova Olga

1886 Village near Vladimir Malenko - 1918, Moscow. She studied at the Art School A. Bolshakov and K. Juon and SHPU. Attended art school E. Zvantseva in St. Petersburg (1911). Member of the Union of Youth (1911), the "Supremus" (1916). Exhibitions since 1903. From 1915 she lived in Moscow. An active leader of St. Petersburg avant-garde, one of the creators and theoreticians of the new art. Argues that only the abstract art full advantage of all the formal properties of art - color, texture, line and pr. Gone from kubofuturizma to Suprematism. "Inanimate objects - clocks, scissors, kitchen utensils and pr. - Predominate in the still life compositions (a favorite genre cubists-futurists) Rozanova. Since 1912 designed the books of the Futurists, wrote clever verses under the influence of A. Kruchyonykh. Works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; SRM, St. Petersburg, and many others. museums in Russia, as well as in the collection of Mr.. Costacis in Athens