Donkey Tail (Artist Group)
Donkey's tail ( Russian Ослиный хвост , Osliny chwost ) is the name of the first exhibition by a group of Russian avant-garde painters founded in Moscow , which also briefly formed an artist group under this name. The group's first exhibition took place in Moscow in 1912 under the title La queue de l'âne (donkey tail). In 1913 the group separated again.
history
The name “donkey tail” goes back to an exhibition in 1910 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris . There a painting by a fictional Italian named Joachim-Raphaël Boronali was exhibited with the title Sunset over the Adriatic - a sea composition with a boat, provided with confused lines. The journalist Roland Dorgelès , one of the initiators of the action, later admitted that this, intended as an attack on the art of the avant-garde , had been produced in the painting by a donkey's tail. The donkey was called Lolo and belonged to Père Frédé, the operator of the famous Parisian cabaret Le Lapin Agile . The name "Boronali" of the alleged artist goes back as an anagram to the well-known donkey "Aliboron" from the fables of La Fontaine .
Two years later, Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov and Natalija Sergejewna Goncharova referred to the Paris exhibition. They called their first exhibition in Moscow La queue de l'âne - donkey tail. The title came from Larionow, who wanted to ridicule the French avant-garde by saying that, in his opinion, painting in Paris could no longer be distinguished from works that even a donkey could do.
In addition to Larionow and Goncharova, the group of artists also included Kazimir Malevich , Marc Chagall and Vladimir Tatlin as founders . Most of them had previously belonged to a group of artists that exhibited from 1910 under the name Karo-Bube . Its founders were also Larionov and Goncharova, who resigned because of their western art orientation and wanted to ensure the liberation of Russian art from foreign influence by founding donkey tail. The formal language of the association is reminiscent of icon painting and Russian folk art in the form of picture arches, called Lubok . Malevich distanced himself from Larionov after a short time and painted in the style of Cubofuturism , while Larionov turned to Rayonism .
literature
- Wilhelm Hornbostel, Karlheinz Kopanski, Thomas Rudi: Russian avant-garde 1910–1934: with full force . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 978-3-926318-92-3
- Donkey tail. In: Christoph Wilhelmi: Groups of artists in Eastern and Southern Europe. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7762-1101-6 , pp. 130-131.
Web links
- petersburg.aktuell.ru : Exhibition in St. Petersburg 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ faz.net, September 17, 2010 : Werner Spies: The great donkey of 1910 , accessed on September 27, 2010
- ↑ Gilles Néret: Malewitsch . Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8228-1960-3 . P. 91