Mikhail Larionov was interested in the many different manifestations of folk art that one might observe in Russian folk art, in the Primitivism found in children’s drawings, and vulgar kitsch.
Larionov opposed academism like all avant-garde artists, and found himself in polemics with academic master artists regarding his Venuses.
Simply naming this picture Venus posed a challenge to the classical school of painting.
Larionov opposed academism like all avant-garde artists, and found himself in polemics with academic master artists regarding his Venuses.
Simply naming this picture Venus posed a challenge to the classical school of painting.