Donkey's Tail

Donkey's Tail (Russian Ослиный хвост, Osliny chwost ) is the name of the first exhibition of a company incorporated in Moscow group of Russian avant-garde painters who were also trained for a short time a group of artists under this name. The first exhibition took place in 1912 under the title La queue de l' âne ( Donkey's Tail ) in Moscow. 1913, the group split again.

History

The name " Donkey's Tail " is based on an exhibition in 1910 at the Salon des Independants in Paris. There, a painting of a fictional Italian named Joachim- Raphaël Boronali titled Sunset was issued on the Adriatic coast - a composition with sea boat, provided with tangled lines. The journalist Roland Dorgelès, one of the originators of the action known later that these had been produced meant as an attack on the avant-garde art, the painting of a donkey dick.

Two years later, Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov and Natalia Goncharova Sergejewna made ​​reference to the Paris Exhibition. They called their first exhibition in Moscow La queue de l' âne - Donkey's Tail. The title came from Larionov, who wanted to make the French avant-garde so ridiculous, in his opinion could no longer be distinguished in Paris, the painting of concoctions that could even run a donkey.

For the group of artists included Larionov and Goncharova next to the founder, among others, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall and Vladimir Tatlin. Most of them had previously belonged to a circle of artists who exhibited in 1910 under the name of Jack of Diamonds. Their founders were also Larionov and Goncharova been that leaked because of their Western art direction and wanted to make with the donkey tail - establishment for the liberation of Russian art from foreign influence. The design language of the union is reminiscent of the Icon painting and the Russian folk art in the form of pictures bow, lubok called. Malevich distanced itself after a short time of Larionov and painted in the style of Cubo-Futurism, while Larionov turned to the Rayonism.