Russian Avant-Garde Art

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  1. 2. New, unusual or experimental ideas (in art, and other things). From the French military term that means "advance guard" - first soldiers in battle.
  2. 3. Russian dictator who hated abstract art, and imprisoned & even killed people for making it.
  3. 6. this infamous Kazimir Malevich painting offended people when he hung it in the corner where Russian religious icons would be.
  4. 7. Russian artist Kazimir Malevich believed that this (circles, triangles, squares) was spiritual.
  5. 8. The only kind of art approved in Soviet Russia post-1930.
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  1. 1. This famous Russian artist had synesthesia and loved geometry.
  2. 4. The last one of Russia was executed with his family by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  3. 5. Russian women 100 years ago were considered the ___ of their parents and then husbands.
  4. 9. Brain condition in which some people hear color, and see sounds.