Jack of Diamonds (artists)

The Jack of Diamonds (Russian Бубновый валет; scientific transliteration Bubnovyj valet; German and Jack of diamonds ) was a 1910-1917 Artist in Moscow existing group name from the eponymous art exhibition of 1910/1911 in Moscow. It is regarded as an essential part of the Russian avant-garde in the first two decades of the 20th Jahrnunderts.

History

The name of the artist group, which refers to the playing card Jack of Diamonds, was because of the connotation of " rogue " provocative as the inmate clothing was marked with a sewn black square in tsarist Russia and the French card players jargon of the Jack of Diamonds was associated with the scammers. Jack can also be understood as a symbol of youth and enthusiasm.

The artists of the Jack of Diamonds were based on post- Impressionism Paul Cézanne, on Fauvism and Cubism, but also to the traditions of Russian lubok and shaping popular toy.

The first members were the Moscow painter, and later artists from St. Petersburg and other Russian cities as well as from Germany and France were added. 1912, tending to Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and Abstract Painting brothers David and Vladimir Burliuk and Natalija Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich and Mikhail Larionov left the group to found the independent association donkey dick.

The group Jack of Diamonds was to December 1917. It held a total of six shows, including a traveling exhibition, and three lectures, the Dispute, in the Polytechnic Museum, Moscow. In March 1927, a retrospective exhibition of the artist of the group was held in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Members

Members of the Russian avant-garde groups

Jack of Diamonds:

• David Burliuk
• Vladimir Burliuk
• Pyotr Konchalovsky
• Aristarchus Lentulov
• Ilya Mashkov

Donkey's Tail:

• Natalija Goncharova
• Mikhail Larionov
• Kasimir Malevich

More Russian Exhibiting:

• Alexandra Exter
• Alexei Alexeyevich Morgunov
• Vasily Rozhdestvensky

And the Cubists Le Fauconnier, Albert Gleizes and Léopold Survage, further members of the New Artists' Association of Munich Vladimir Georgijewitsch Bechtejew, Erma Bossi, Adolf Erbsloh, Alexej Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Kanoldt, Gabriele Münter and Werefkin.