Wooden shaped puzzle «Cosmos by Olexander Bogomazov»
created in collaboration with the Mystetskyi Arsenal
The semi-figurative painting "Cosmos" (1910s, oil on canvas) is one of the seven artworks by Oleksandr Bogomazov (1880-1930) that are held at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv. The recognition of the value of this artist's legacy in the history of avant-garde art is gradually increasing. Bogomazov was one of the founders of national Cubo-Futurism, a synthesis of the principles of French Cubism (geometrization of form) with the ideas of Italian Futurism (an attempt to convey the object in the dynamics of movement). For him movement and rhythm are the key art concepts. "Art is an impeccable rhythm. An artist is its sensitive resonator," he wrote. Bogomazov, also an art theoretician and educator, as early as in 1914 in his treatise "The Art of Painting and the Elements" traced the birth of form from the movement of the first element - the point.
Also, he formulated the idea of rhythm, reflected on the properties of the line, and touched on the issue of the emotional aspect of color. One of the first in the world to do this, he predicted the liberation of art from attachment to material reality and approached the idea of non-objective abstract painting. In essence, Bogomazov offered for the 20th century not just a new form or style, but a fundamentally new concept of painting. Almost all of his short life Oleksandr Bogomazov lived in Kyiv.
Unusual shape of the elements
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