Konstantin Yuon

Konstantin Yuon (1875-1958)
self-portrait, 1912
oil on canvas
Russian Museum, St Petersburg
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His first works walked the way between Impressionism and Symbolism, and he was associated by that time with the group of Mir Iskustva; like all those miriskusniki he was against modernism, and for reviving the old artistic spirit; you'd say kind of Pre-Raphaelites; only these Russians (Yuon included), knew how to balance that with some self-humorous touch. The 1917 Revolution and all that followed overturned his style, and he became an artist of the Avangarde (still with a subtle self-humourus note); his mastercraft assured him a good place in the arts' official elite and by the end he became a strict Socialist Realist. No wonder, he was not the only one. Those were the times. Now his oils and watercolors hang on the walls of the Russian Museum and at Tretyakov. I will try to put here some images of his works, only give me some time.

• Soft Goods, 1905
• Blue Bush, 1908
• Tverskoy Boulevard, 1909
• Spring Sunny Day, 1910
• View of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra from Vokzalnaya Street, 1910
• Portrait of Claudia Yuon, the wife of the artist, 1911

(Avangarda 20)