Amazon of avant-garde: Liubov Popova (1889-1924) - a famous Russian artist (part 3)

In winter 1914 Liubov Popova worked at V.Tatlin's studio, which was situated in Moscow. 1914 Tatlin arrived in Paris, where he met with this interesting Russian woman. The artist plunged into a unique atmosphere of the Parisian life and art again...

However, when she met her friends from La Palette, it seemed to her that they "had not made any progress", that they were at the same place as "they used to be a year ago". Popova herself seemed to have surpassed La Palette. She has attended the collection by Ude, where she could see works by Picasso and Braque, and since that time she started being guided by Picasso. And if her composition "Two Figures" (1913), which was her debut at the exhibition "The Jack of Diamonds" (1914), had some traces of influence Metsenge, precisely, of his picture "The Dark Blue Bird", then in her subsequent works more profound understanding of cubism principles can be seen.

"Portrait of a philosopher" (1915) is distinguished with the big restraint of the color decision, the dynamic composition of a cloth is under construction alternation of sonorous planes of color and the intense rhythms of "convex" lines which create angular picturesque "relief" on the canvas surface. Inscriptions are included in a composition and figure "32" is some kind of the license plate designating a picture as "thing", like the trade mark.

It is necessary to pay attention to features of understanding of cubismby Liubov Popova. She was appealed by the world of things, revealing of the opportunities one can find in the material itself, possessing an exact address. If she creates a still life with utensils, it must be nothing else but "Tin utensils" (1913); if she is going to draw subjects - that must be nothing else but "Subjects from dye-works" (1914).

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