Natalia Gontcharova raging against the machine since 1881

Russia

Beauty In The Fourth Dimension

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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...

I Am Opening Up The East

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“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?

Natalia Gontcharova raging against the machine since 1881