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January 29, 2018
We Stretch Out Our Hands To The Futurists
29January
January 25, 2018
I Destroy This Holy Of Holies
25January
The term 'Anti-Individualist' is an unusual description for an artist, one that runs exactly contrary to the prevailing Individualism that runs throughout Modern Art. Yet 'The Anti-Individualist' is very much an accurate description of Natalia Gontcharova, one that might uniquely be applied only to her among her contemporaries in the modern art movement of the first part of the 20th century. She...
January 19, 2018
Beauty In The Fourth Dimension
19January
Natalia Gontcharova, perhaps above all else, was a spiritual painter. She created art according to her personal sense of modern devotion. She was pious, humble, charitable and obedient. This deep grounding in faith is present throughout her entire body of work but reveals itself in different ways at different stages of her life and career...
January 9, 2018
I Am Opening Up The East
09January
“Now I shake the dust from my feet and leave the West, considering its vulgarizing significance trivial and unimportant - my path is toward the source of all arts, the East.” What does Gontcharova mean here when she refers to the East?
December 22, 2017
We Demand A Knowledge Of Painterly Craftsmanship
22December
A wide-ranging list of sources for further research into the life & works of Natalia Gontcharova in the worlds of art, literature, fashion, ballet & beyond...
December 15, 2017
Do Not Ever Destroy Your Paintings
15December
In the world of Natalia Gontcharova, the seemingly simple act of dating a piece of her artwork is often made even more challenging by a combination of additional factors, not the least of which was her usual habit of not dating her works at their creation...
December 13, 2017
May My Example and My Words Be A Good Lesson
13December
Natalia Sergeevna Gontcharova was born and raised in pre-revolutionary Russia. As a student she was taught to write her name in the cyrillic alphabet (Наталиа Гонтчарова), and early in her career as an artist she signed works with both her full name or just her initials, often in the form of a monogram...