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| The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 - Petrograd 1915-16 |
As part of “Islands of Saints,” a small exhibition of Icons of British and Anglo-Saxon saints at All Hallows by the Tower (12 July – 2 August 2019), art historian Andrew Spira gave a fascinating lecture on the influence of the orthodox Icon painting tradition on the Russian Avant-Garde (which reached its peak between the 1917 revolution and the early 1930s). He used images of work from a variety of little known (to me!) artists, to illustrate how icon painting influenced art and culture throughout the changing political landscape of Russia. He began by explaining what an icon is and how the icon painting tradition emerged.
