This was a short lived art movement but was very significant in the abstract painting/ form which was very popular in Russia. Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova where artists who created pieces of work which weren’t the objects themselves but the light rays that reflects from the objects.
Rayonism or Rayism or Luchism are straight, colourful lines and acute triangles painted on canvases in order to represent non-visible rays than the object.
This was not an artistic style but a movement that questioned all artistic, scientific, social and moral conventions.
This movement was about embracing nihilism, primitivism and perversity, rejecting belief, believing in each individual piece of art, and focusing on the city rather than nature.
Nihilism: This is where people believe in nothing.
Perversity: Modernist Artists explored uncivilized nature of man. The nudity of men and women.
The City was about people and places that are lonely and not about nature.
These types of people didn’t believe in each countries Academy’s (school). The Academy judged what was proper and what wasn’t. The Academy also wanted the art to be in the classical tradition. This was for the painting to be highly polished, as well as have historical or mythical ideas and has a moral.
The Modernist artist made a style that was strange, unknown and inexpressible and made the viewer think.
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