Cubo-Futurism

Cubo-Futurism. A term applied by Malevich to works he showed at the Donkey's Tail (1912) and Target (1913) exhibitions in which he combined aspects of Cubism and Futurism, notably the fragmentation of form of Cubism and the sense of mechanistic movement of Futurism. The term fits some of his works of this time better than others, and it has often been used rather vaguely to refer to other aspects of Russian art of this time, literature as well as painting. For example, Dmitri V. Sarabianov (Russian Art, 1990) writes: ‘The avant-garde movement of the early 1910s is known by the name “Cubo-Futurism” … the term was very convenient, since it embraced Futurist poets as well as Cubist painters. The Cubo-Futurist group also included painters who did not practice Cubism and were closer to Expressionism.’