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Ivan
Alexandrovich Kudryashov

Russia • 1896−1972

Biography and information

Artist, painter, graphic artist; experimenter, representative of the avant-garde.

Ivan Alexandrovich Kudryashov was born in the village. Troitskoe, Kaluga province. In 1910 he graduated from the Yakiman City School in Moscow. Studied at the Stroganov Central School of Industrial Art (1912); MUZhVZ (1913-1918), in the workshop of P. V. Kuznetsov, State free art workshops (1918-1919) with K. S. Malevich, used the advice of I. V. Klyun.

Lived in Moscow. He was married to the artist N. K. Timofeeva. In 1918 he worked on the design of campaign vehicles for the celebration of the first anniversary of the October Revolution. Thanks to his father, who worked as a designer for K.E. Tsiolkovsky, he joined the idea of space flights.

In 1919, on a business trip of the Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat for Education, Kudryashov left for Orenburg. He was engaged in organizing a branch of the State Agricultural Academy there and worked as an instructor, created easel Suprematist works. Here Kudryashov created an extensive pictorial and graphic series "Space" or "The Birth of the Sun. Flight". With the participation of Malevich and Lissitzky, he organized (1920) in Orenburg a branch of UNOVIS (Approvers of New Art). He headed this branch himself, together with members of the creative committee S. I. Kalmykov and N. K. Timofeeva. He worked on the interior design of the City Theater, collaborated with the summer Krasnoarmeisky Theater (Orenburg). The design project for the first Soviet theater in Orenburg, created by Kudryashov in 1920, is one of the most significant examples of the use of the Suprematist method in a real environment.

In 1921, I.A.Kudryashov worked in Smolensk, where he met with two Polish followers and students of Malevich - Vladislav Strzheminsky and Katarzyna Kobro - the heads of the local branch of UNOVIS. At the end of the same year, the artist returned to Moscow. After returning, he took part in the design of the club of political emigrants. Kudryashov collaborated with the artists G. G. Klutsis, S. Ya. Senkin and especially closely with I. V. Klyun. In 1925, Kudryashov became a member of the Art Society of Easelists (OST). Exhibited abstract works at the 1st, 2nd and 4th exhibitions of this association. In 1931, IA Kudryashov entered the art association "Isobrigada", which broke away from the OST. He was also a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSH). He taught at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Painters and Decorators in Moscow (1937–1939).

Created cubist, Suprematist compositions; experienced a strong influence of constructivism on his work. In the 1920s, he studied the principles of cutting paints and refraction of light in painting. Completed an extensive painting and graphic series "Space" (1920s), "Constructions of rectilinear movement", "Constructions of curvilinear movement" (second half of the 1920s). In later years (1960s) he repeated in color and created variations of many of his early graphic works.

Participated in exhibitions of the Moscow Association of Artists, in the 1st Russian art exhibition at the Van Diemen Gallery in Berlin (1922), the 1st state traveling exhibition of paintings (1925, Moscow - Saratov - Volgograd - Kazan - Nizhny Novgorod). Member and exhibitor of OST (1925-1928). After 1928 (4th exhibition of the OST) he was not exhibited. In 1970, a personal exhibition of Kudryashov was held in Paris.

The work of I.A.Kudryashov is presented in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the I.V.Savitsky Karakalpak State Museum of Arts in Nukus (Uzbekistan), the State Museum of Modern Art in Thessaloniki (Greece) and others.
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    Futurism, Constructivism, Cubism, Suprematism, Cubo-futurism, Cubism
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    Oil
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    Painting
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