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“Natalia Goncharova
b. 1881, Nagaevo, Russian Empire (now Russia)
d. 1962, Paris
Cats (rayist percep.[tion] in rose, black, and yellow) (Koshki [luchistoe vospr.(iiatie) rozovoe, chernoe
i zheltoe])
1913
Oil on canvas
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
57.1484
Painted in the Rayonist style, Cats portrays two black felines flanking a tabby. Natalia Goncharova created this work shortly after participating in the 1912 Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) exhibition in Munich, where she announced her rejection of Western aesthetics and promoted Rayonism as an ostensibly "Russian" painting method.
Co-developed with her artistic and life partner, Mikhail Larionov, the movement eschewed figuration in favor of an analytical depiction of light.
Goncharova led an avant-garde faction that sought to innovate Russian art, while also incorporating aspects of folk imagery from across the vast empire in their work. In this luminous composition, she integrated Rayonism's darts and starbursts with the bright colors typical of folk art.
Goncharova explained, "to draw my artistic inspiration from my country and from the East, so close to us.... This will help me to express contemporaneity-its living beauty-better and more vividly.!"”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l5pcfqdnvtivhxufycjnvzui/bafkreihcfi7slihhwzozxgvascf5x4snmbr4dcchxlyb7biawk7af3ance)
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