Diaries (1930-1939). Filonov P.N.

Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov (1882-1941)-a unique painter, graphic artist, teacher. His once devoted forcibly oblivion and the pictures that have come out of non -existence have a well -deserved recognition throughout the world. At the same time, Filonov himself remains one of the most mysterious and incomprehensible masters of the Russian avant-garde, standing an mansion in the art of the 20th century.

The diary notes of Pavel Filonov, dating from 1930-1939, reveal the identity of the author who subordinated his life to a steady and uncompromisingly the implementation of the idea of ​​analytical art, whose main provisions Filonov formulated in 1912 and until the end of his days he searched for ways of his theoretical and practical development.

In addition, diaries talk about the artist’s everyday life: communication with students, participation in exhibitions, painful Searching for work, half -starved existence, attacks on the school of Filonov from the Union of Artists, GPU, NKVD. The reader witnesses the tragedy of the suppression of the innovator artist, his courageous resistance in the unequal struggle, inability to conformism, uncompromising and spiritual resistance.

The application is placed in the Poem of Filonov “The Prophent of the World”, which was highly appreciated by Velieri Khlebnikov, as well as materials that help understand the essence of analytical art.