Aristarkh Lentulov painted the cubofuturistic Landscape with a Red House in 1917. In 1916, the artist temporarily moved to New Jerusalem settlement near Moscow, where he painted this picture.

The canvas combines two opposite principles of space organization. On the right side of the landscape, the space is relatively three-dimensional, that is, it combines length, width and height.

The clouds and tree crowns in the upper left corner look like evenly-hued color spots. Such combination of spatial principles is often found in the works by Aristarkh Lentulov.

Aristarkh Lentulov was born in 1882 in the modern Penza region. He came from the family of a village priest. The future painter loved to draw since very childhood and did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps. In 1906, Lentulov moved to the capital of the Russian Empire, where he entered the painting studio of Dmitry Kardovsky.

A few years later, Aristarkh Lentulov and his friends founded the Jack of Diamonds, a creative society that brought together contemporary art aficionados. Among its members were Kazimir Malevich and Vasily Kandinsky.

Artists came out with program manifestos and reports, arranged disputes about the ways of the contemporary art. In 1926 or 1927, Aristarkh Lentulov joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, and in 1928 he became the founder and chairman of the Society of Moscow Artists which engaged many members of the Jack of Diamonds group.

The artist was one of the originators of avant-garde art in Russia. He drew inspiration for his canvases in ancient Russian art, such as the ancient lubok (popular print) and icon painting.