Vasilii Chekrygin

(1897 - 1922)

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Маковец, журнал искусств, № 1

Makovts, art journal no.1

Moscow: Mlechny put, 1922

300 x 240 mm.  32 pages

Edition: 650. 

Tipped-in lithographs by Chekrygin, Chernyshev, Gerasimov, Pestel, Romanovich and Shevchenko. Poetry by: Aseev, Bobrov, Bolshakov, Florenski, Khlebnikov and Pasternak.

In June 1921 the Union of Russian artists and poets Art and Life"Makovets" was founded and presented its first exhibition of paintings in April-May 1922. The bracketed name refers to the first issue of a magazine they published at the same timeMakovets is the name of a hill at Sergeev-Posad on which the monastery of the Trinity and St. Sergius, a centre of Russian Orthodoxy, is located. The choice of this name was inspired by Pavel Florenskii, the spiritual leader of the group. Among the participants were the artists Sergei Gerasimov, Lev Zhegin, Konstantin Zefirov, Vera Pestel, Artur Fonvizin, Vasilii Chekrygin, Nikolai Chernyshev and Aleksandr Shevchenko, artists formerly belonging to the Moscow Salon and the World of Art. Later they were joined by Reshetov, Rudin, Chernyshev and Florenskii, writers from the Milky way group. The artists of Makovets thought that a revival of art would be possible only if the values of meticulously selected artistic leaders of the past were used. They did not create any ‘ism’, and did not quarrel with other groups. They believed that the time of enigmatic creativity would end when the fundamental values were known. Art would then revive in infinite movements and thrive simply on wisdom and inspiration.