Natalia Goncharova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Natalia Goncharova

Russian-French artist

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1881

Place of Birth: Nagayevo, Russia

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1962

Profession: illustrator, painter, costume designer, scenographer, fashion designer, drawer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian: ????´??? ?????´???? ???????´??, IPA: [n?'tal?j? s??r'g?ej?vn? g?n?t??'rov?]; June 21, 1881 – October 17, 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer.
Goncharova's lifelong partner was also a fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov.
She was a founding member of both the Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911), Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913), and with Larionov invented Rayonism (1912–1914).
She was also a member of the German based art movement known as Der Blaue Reiter.
Born in Russia, she moved to Paris in 1921 and lived there until her death. Her painting vastly influenced the avant-garde in Russia.
Her exhibition held in Moscow and St.
Petersburg (1913 and 1914) were the first promoting a “new” artist by an independent gallery.
When it comes to the pre-revolutionary period in Russia, where decorative painting and icons were a secure profession, her modern approach to rendering icons were both transgressive and problematic.
Her work is usually considered too culturally specific to her Slavic heritage to be universally figured as avant-garde.