What is Aristarkh Lentulov?
[[File:Aristarkh Lentulov Self-portrait 1913.jpg|thumb|230px|right|Self-portrait, 1913]] [[File:Lentulov Woman Guitar.jpg|thumb|230px|''Woman with Guitar'', 1913]] '''Aristarkh Lentulov''' <ref>{{lang-ru|Аристарх Васильевич Лентулов}}</ref> (4 January 1882 {{ndash}} 15 April 1943) was a major [[Russia]]n [[avant-garde]] [[artist]] who also worked on set designs for the theatre. His work shows strong influences of [[fauvism]] and [[cubism]].<ref>Lentulov, Aristarkh 1968. ''Catalog of exhibition''. Moscow.</ref><ref>Lentulova M. & Khudozhnik A. 1969. ''Lentulov: Recollections''. Moscow.</ref> == Biography == Aristarkh Lentulov was born in [[Penza Oblast]], 625 kilometers (388&nbsp;mi) southeast of [[Moscow]], into the family of a country [[priest]]. He studied art in the Penza and [[Kiev]] art schools from 1897 to 1905. Then he went to the private studio of [[Dmitry Kardovsky]] in [[St Petersburg]] in 1906. He lived in Moscow from 1909, and he was one of the founders of the [[avant-garde]] [[Jack of Diamonds (artists)|Jack of Diamonds]] group. From 1910 to 1911 Lentulov studied at the Le Fauconnier studio and the La Palette Academy in Paris. While there, he met contemporary French painters such as [[Albert Gleizes]], [[Jean Metzinger]], [[Fernand Léger]] and [[Robert Delaunay]]. He took in the fauvists' and cubists' principles, and developed his own colourful style of painting. Later, after his return to Russia in 1912, he became a big influence on what became Russian [[futurism]]. [[Wassily Kandinsky]] and [[Kazimir Malevich]] were both influenced by him. From [[Russian Revolution of 1917|pre-revolutionary]] times, Lentulov was actively involved in various theatrical projects. He designed sets for the [[Kamerny Theatre]] 1916) and for a production of [[Alexander Scriabin|Scriabin]]'s ''[[Prometheus]]'' in the [[Bolshoi Theatre]] in 1919. In 1928 Lentulov entered into the Society of Moscow artists, and became chairman of the Society. He also started teaching at the Russian State Art and Technical School.