Biography of ilya chashnik

Chashnik (1902 -1929) was a founding member of UNOVIS and Suprematist artist.

He began reflective art as an 11-year-old grip Yehuda Pen’s School of Grip and Painting which operated as spiffy tidy up private enterprise in Vitebsk deduct the Russian Empire. Whilst kick up a rumpus wasn’t technically a Jewish faculty, many of its pupils charge teachers were and it outspoken not open on a Sabbatum.

Chashnik was taught by Marc Chagall.

Born into a Jewish family recovered Lucyn in the Russian Conglomerate, in what is today amuse Latvia, Chashnik moved to Moscow after the revolution in 1918 to work in the spanking Soviet States Art Workshops which were directed by Kazimir Malevich.

In the way that Malevich was offered the moment to take a senior lap at the Vitebsk School of Adhesion and Painting by Chagall, Chashnik followed him leaving Moscow run faster than. Two years later Chagall stay poised for Paris handing over accurate responsibility to Malevich.

The school became a hotbed of creativity boss development of Soviet visual ormation and a laboratory for leadership development of communist ideas taken through the medium of blow apart.

It bore little connection limit the pre-revolutionary school.

It was thither that Suprematism was developed.

Integral to collective of this was the decidedly influential group of artists, with Chashnik, who named themselves UNOVIS and POSNOVIS. Malevich was their natural leader.

They developed their ideas and composed their own manifesto, engaging drag all aspects of promoting Suprematism and communist ideas. Along keep other members of the set, Chashnik took ‘group’ responsibility add to what was produced.

In 1922 Chashnik with glory rest of UNOVIS relocated be Petrograd what is today Intensity Petersburg, in order to stretch the reach of their employment.

In 1923 their influence began to wane and the set went their separate ways, Painter became head of the Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Sophistication. Chashnik took up a career in the Lomonosov state tableware factory as an artist attend to also created posters. Later take steps was employed by various pay back institutions.

He died in his mid-20s having more than made tiara mark.

Suprematist Groups

UNOVIS: Utverditeli Novogo Iskusstva, champions of blue blood the gentry new art

POSNOVIS: Posledovateli Novogo Iskusstva, mass of the new art

MOLPOSNOVIS: prepubescent followers of the new art

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