1919 - Art

Art

Painting: a one-man show of works by Russian painter Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko, 26, opens at Moscow with pictures in a completely abstract, highly geometric style produced with a ruler and compass. Rodchenko paints a series of black-and-white geometric paintings intended as a response to his rival Kasimir Malevich, who has produced white-on-white paintings.

Other paintings: The Murder by Edvard Munch; Picture with Light Center (collage) by German Dadaist painter-poet Kurt Schwitters, 32; Portrait du Jeanne Hébuterne en pullover jaune, La Marchesa Casata, and Gypsy Woman with Baby by Amédéo Modigliani, who is dying of tuberculosis, alcoholism, and drug abuse; Pierrot by Pablo Picasso; Follow the Arrow (Suivez la flèche) and The City (La Ville) by Fernand Léger; Dream Birds by Paul Klee; The Return of the Prodigal Son by Giorgio de Chirico; Dreamy Improvisation and Arabian Cemetery by Wassily Kandinsky; Nympheas and Water Lilis, Reflections of Weeping Willows by Claude Monet; Anywhere Out of the World by Marc Chagall; Victory Day, May 1919 by Childe Hassam; Lake Placid and Heat by New York painter Florine Stettheimer, 48; Music—Pink and Blue II by Georgia O'Keeffe. Sir Edward Poynter dies at London July 26 at age 83; Ralph Albert Blakelock at a camp in the Adirondacks August 9 at age 71; Pierre-Auguste Renoir at Caques-sur-Mer December 17 at age 78.

Sculpture: Bird in Space (bronze) by Constantin Brancusi (see 1926). Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide at Berlin March 25 at age 38.