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Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova

Russian artist
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Category: Arts & Culture
Rozanova also spelled:
Rosanova
Born:
June 22 [July 4, New Style], 1886, oblast, RussiaMelenki, Vladimir
Died:
Nov. 8, 1918, Moscow (aged 32)
Movement / Style:
Futurism
Suprematism
abstract art
Cubo-Futurism
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Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (born June 22 [July 4, New Style], 1886, Melenki, Vladimir oblast, Russia—died Nov. 8, 1918, Moscow) Russian artist who was one of the main innovators of the Russian avant-garde. By the time of her death in 1918, she had embraced in her painting the use of pure colour, a concern that engaged American abstract artists, such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, several decades later, in the 1950s. Rozanova was born into a family of provincial aristocrats. Drawn to all that was new in art, she moved to Moscow, where she tried to enroll in the Stroganov ...(100 of 537 words)

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