Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>"The Kiss," Vsevolod Maksymovych ,1913.</p><p>Ukrainian Maksymovych (1894-1914) was a devotee of Aubrey Beardsley and other Art Nouveau stars; some of his other works really reflect a Beardsley style. In fact, he would blow up Beardsley's small-scale stylings to large canvases...and later critics remarked that he was managing to out-Beardsley Beardsley.</p><p>Biographical information about him is scant; he was only 19 when he produced most of his work, and apparently was a nudist and bodybuilder as well, but died by suicide in Moscow when he was only 20, seemingly despondent after the failure of his first one-man exhibition. </p><p>After his death, since his work was incompatible with official Soviet culture, it was shoved away into storage and forgotten until recent years. Now he's being rediscovered and reappraised as a significant talent that was lost early.</p><p>Tantalizingly, it seems he also dabbled in avant-garde film, which warms my cinephile heart.</p><p>From the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/VsevolodMakskymovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VsevolodMakskymovych</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/UkrainianArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UkrainianArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ArtNouveau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtNouveau</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Decadence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decadence</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SlavaUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SlavaUkraine</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GoneTooSoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoneTooSoon</span></a></p>