1905 and Art: From Aesthetes to Revolutionaries

This article examines the impact that experience of 1905 Revolution had on political attitudes professional artists various creative persuasions and younger generation who were still attending art schools. It inevitably focuses a few representatives argues Realists as well more innovative like Valentin Serov World Art group became critical regime began to produce works satirizing Tsar his government. These did not, however, take their disenchantment further express particular ideology in or join any specific party. The author also suggests affected students Mikhail Larionov Natalia Goncharova, subsequently leaders avant-garde developed style known Neo-Primitivism. influence can be seen pursuit freedom, subjects they chose, distinctly anti-establishment ethos emerged Neo-Primitivist around 1910.