Aristarkh Lentulov(1882 - 1943 ) is yet another artist whose work is fascinating and influential , yet about whom very little data is uncommitted . His study , however , is too awesome to go without reference in " Feel Art Again,“ so I ’ve scrounged up what information I can about Lentulov and his 1913 house painting " Vasily the Blessed Cathedral . “
1.Although Aristarkh Lentulov was not born into a rich or artistic kin , he was still able-bodied to welcome 8 age of art school , after which he study in the private studio of Dmitry Kardovsky in St. Petersburg . He became very fighting in the art fit , co - ground the Jack of Diamondsgroup , a group of exhibiting avant - garde artists , and serving as chairman of the Society of Moscow Artists . Among those he influenced were Vassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich , whose celebrity seems to have surpassed Lentulov ’s .
2.While consider in Paris from 1911 to 1912 , Lentulov hung out with the Cubo - Futurists , who consult to him as a " futurist à la russe . “
3.In " Vasily the Blessed Cathedral,“ Lentulov tried to depict " every part of the cathedral at the same time . “ His daughter wrote that " He went around the cathedral dozens of time trying to think its strange angles” ¦ in order tomake it a boundless fantasy suitable of fairy talesin terms of shapes and colours . “ He yell the principle he work on the " dynamics of people of colour . "
4.The cathedral depicted is the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin of the Moat , which is located on the Red Square next to the Kremlin . The cathedral isoften mistaken for the Kremlin , or at least part of it , in the West , but the two buildings are freestanding and unassociated ( other than their geographic proximity ) .
5.Commissioned by Ivan IV ( a.k.a . " Ivan the Terrible" ) , the cathedral consists of 9 chapel on one basis . The original construct was to build a cluster of chapel , each one dedicated to one of the saintson whose banquet days the czar had won struggle . Since the tzar ’s victory against the Tartar Mongols fare on the feast of the Intercession of the Virgin , the whole duomo was named in her honor . It became have-to doe with to as St. Basil ’s , after the " holy fool" Basil the Blessed , who was quite popular at the time ( 1555 - 1561 ) .
6.Several fable surround the iconic cathedral . One tale regard Ivan dim the cathedral ’s designer , Postnik Yakovlev , to prevent him from build an even more magnificent building for anyone else . The story has been debunked , though , since Yakovlev contrive an addition to the edifice in 1588 , after Ivan ’s death . Another story require Napoleon , who was purportedly so impressed with the cathedral that he wanted to bring it back to France . Lacking the ability , heordered the building destroyedduring the French hideaway from the city . Kegs of gunpowder were set up and their fuse light but , thanks to a " sudden , miraculous shower,“ the fuses were extinguished , the explosion foreclose , and the duomo saved .
