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Spring

Date

ca. 1917

Creator

Natalia Goncharova

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

Natal'ya Goncharova's early work reveals the influence of European avant-garde style. However, she quickly developed a profound interest in Russian peasant art and medieval icon painting. Her art evolved under these influences into a cultivated primitivist style. Printemps, which means "springtime" in French, is composed of patterns of flat color and floral motifs drawn from the peasant embroideries and popular wood engravings that Goncharova so admired. The three fields of the painting, in which the floral motifs gradually increase, may symbolize the changing of the seasons. The title perhaps also refers to the political climate of the time. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)

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Natal'ya Goncharova's early work reveals the influence of European avant-garde style. However, she quickly developed a profound interest in Russian peasant art and medieval icon painting. Her art evolved under these influences into a cultivated primitivist style. Printemps, which means "springtime" in French, is composed of patterns of flat color and floral motifs drawn from the peasant embroideries and popular wood engravings that Goncharova so admired. The three fields of the painting, in which the floral motifs gradually increase, may symbolize the changing of the seasons. The title perhaps also refers to the political climate of the time. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
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  • Natal'ya Goncharova's early work reveals the influence of European avant-garde style. However, she quickly developed a profound interest in Russian peasant art and medieval icon painting. Her art evolved under these influences into a cultivated primitivist style. Printemps, which means "springtime" in French, is composed of patterns of flat color and floral motifs drawn from the peasant embroideries and popular wood engravings that Goncharova so admired. The three fields of the painting, in which the floral motifs gradually increase, may symbolize the changing of the seasons. The title perhaps also refers to the political climate of the time. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
  • Natal'ya Goncharova's early work reveals the influence of European avant-garde style. However, she quickly developed a profound interest in Russian peasant art and medieval icon painting. Her art evolved under these influences into a cultivated primitivist style. Printemps, which means "springtime" in French, is composed of patterns of flat color and floral motifs drawn from the peasant embroideries and popular wood engravings that Goncharova so admired. The three fields of the painting, in which the floral motifs gradually increase, may symbolize the changing of the seasons. The title perhaps also refers to the political climate of the time. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881 - 1962)
ca. 1917
Paintings
Oil on canvas
1994.024.007
Abstract
Constructivist
Der Blaue Reiter
floral patterns
Rayonist
Russian
spring
still lifes
symbolism
© 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Raclin Murphy Museum: BH5
41 x 25 1/8 in. (104.14 x 63.82 cm)
Bequest of Miss May E. Walter

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