FROM RUSSIA & FRANCE: Mikhail Larionov invented “rayonism”, a movement within Russian avant-garde, where rays projecting from objects formed the image created on the canvas. However, he also adhered to other styles, alongside his wife, the great Natalia Goncharova.

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Fairy tales are as dark and twisted as the traumas we endure. They have power because they not only show the wounds we suffer but, more importantly, how we can ultimately overcome them. Happily ever afters are always hard-won.
(illustration by Nadezhda Illarionova)

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"There is an opportunity with children to show them art and illustration that will furnish their minds with beauty and mystery, symmetry and wonder."

Meghan Cox Gurdon, "The Enchanted Hour..."

🖌 Nadezhda Illarionova

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"Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch." - Hans Christian Andersen

Illustrations by Nadezhda Illarionova

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The avant-garde Russian painter Mikhail Larionov was born in 1881, from the very beginning of his career, he was making an enormous impact on the formation and evolution of the 20th century New Art. He is regarded as the forefather of abstract art.
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“Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”
Oscar Wilde

Nadezhda Illarionova - Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen.

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“Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”
Oscar Wilde

Nadezhda Illarionova - Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen.

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THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert

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Michail Fedorovič Larionov - Michail Fedorovič Larionov -

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Mikhaïl Larionov : Portrait de femme, (MNAM de Paris)

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Mikhail Larionov
"Portrait of Vladimir Tatlin"
(1913)

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Mikhail Larionov
"Portrait of Vladimir Tatlin"
(1913)

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THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert; Ian Daniels

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Mikhail Larionov
"Portrait of Vladimir Tatlin"
(1913)

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