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Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov (lang-ru|Павел
Николаевич Филонов; (January 8,
1883 – December 3, 1941) was a
Russia|Russian painter, art theorist and a poet.

== Biography ==
Filonov was born in Moscow on January 81883
(Gregorian calendar) or December 27, 1882
(Julian_calendar).  He moved to Saint Petersburg
in 1897 where he took art lessons. In 1908 he
entered St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and was
expelled in 1910.

In 1910 through 1914 he took part in the arts
group Soyuz Molodezhi created by artists E. Guro
and M. Matyushin. In 1912 he wrote the article The
Canon and The Law in which he formulated the
principles of analytical art|analytical realism or
"anti-Cubism". According to Filonov, Cubism
represents objects using elements of their surface
geometry but "analytical realists" should
represent objects using elements of their inner
soul. He was faithful to these principles for the
remainder of his life.



During the years 1913 to 1915 Filonov was close to
Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov and other
futurism|Futurists. In the autumn of 1916 he
enlisted for service in World War I and served on
the Romanian front. Filonov participated actively
in the October Revolution and served as the
Chairman of the Revolutionary War Committee of
Dunay region. 

In 1919 he exhibited in the First Free Exhibit of
Artists of All Trends exhibition at the Hermitage.
In 1923 he became a professor of St. Petersburg
Academy of Arts and a member of the Institute for
Artistic Culture (INKhUK). He organized a large
arts school of Masters of Analitical Realism (over
70 artists). Their work influenced Suprematism and
 Expressionism.

In 1929, a large retrospective exhibition of
Filonov art was a planned at the Russian Museum,
however the Soviet government forbade the
exhibition from going forward. From 1932 onward,
he literally starved but still refused to sell his
works to private collectors. He wanted to give all
his works to Russian Museum as a gift so as to
start a Museum of Analytical Realism. He died of
starvation on December 3, 1941 during the Siege of
Leningrad.

==Legacy==

Most of Filonov's works were saved by his sister
Evdokiya Nikolaevna Glebova. She stored the
paintings in the Russian Museum's archives and
eventually donated them as a gift. Exhibitions of
Filonov's work were forbidden. In 1967 an
exhibition of Filonov's works in Novosibirsk was
permitted. In 1988 his work was allowed in Russian
Museum. In 1989 and 1990, the first international
exhibition of Filonov's work was held in Paris.

During the period of half-legal status of
Filonov's works it was seemingly easy to steal
them, however there was a
http://www.tv-ostankino.ru/material/Material_459_4
2.htm legend that Filonov's ghost protected his
art and anybody trying to steal his paintings or
to smuggle them abroad would soon die, become
paralyzed, etc.

==Selected works==

*Heads - 1910 (Filonov considered the painting as
his first real work.
* A Man and a Woman (Adam and Eve) - 1912-1913
*The Banquet of Kings - 1913
*A Peasant Family (The Holy Family) - 1914
*The Formula of Contemporary Pedagogy of IZO -
1923
*Horses. - 1924-1925
*Two Heads. Rabbles 1925
*Animals - 1930
*Countenances (Faces on an Icon) - 1940


== External links ==
*
http://www.starat.narod.ru/pictures/rusavang/filon
ov/main.htm A Russian site devoted to Filonov
commonscat|Pavel Filonov

ru:Филоноk
4;,_Павел
Николае&
#1074;ич| Filonov in Russian Wikipedia