In 1960, Tatiana Nikolayevna Glebova painted a portrait of Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov. In this work, she used the same iconography as in the group portrait she had made in the 1930s. At the same time, the artist changed the style, the manner of painting, the composition, and the pattern of brushstrokes. The reason behind this change was the new worldview that was a tribute to the training she had received and the artistic principles she had adopted while studying under Filonov.

Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov (1882–1941) was a painter, graphic artist and illustrator, who founded the school of analytical art. The method proposed by Filonov was based on the laws of development from the specific to the general — both in nature and in art.

According to Filonov, the work process should consist of brief single touches on the artwork surface with a sharp pencil or a brush (with “dot” being “one unit of action”), which are followed by a synthetic phase — the final “outlining” of a multilayered composition with color or shapes.

At first, in 1924, Tatiana Nikolayevna Glebova studied painting in the private studio of Alexander Ivanovich Savinov, who was dubbed “the tranquil Vrubel”. However, in 1925, she transferred to the studio of Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov, and a little later joined the group of his followers — the Collective of Masters of Analytical Art.

“Reminiscences of Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov” by Tatiana Nikolayevna Glebova was included in the 11th issue of the anthology “Panorama of Arts” in 1988. The text was published three years after Glebova’s death.