page_title: Lyubov Popova
section_title: Cubo-Futurism
hierarchical_section_title: Lyubov Popova / Style / Cubo-Futurism
caption_attribution_description: The Pianist
context_page_description: Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter and designer.
context_section_description: Popova was one of the first female pioneers in Cubo-Futurism. Through a synthesis of styles she worked towards what she termed painterly architectonics. After first exploring Impressionism, by 1913, in Composition with Figures, she was experimenting with the particularly Russian development of Cubo-Futurism: a fusion of two equal influences from France and Italy. 
  From 1914–1915 her Moscow home became the meeting-place for artists and writers. In 1914–1916 Popova together with other avant-garde artists (Aleksandra Ekster, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Olga Rozanova) contributed to the two Knave of Diamonds exhibitions, in Petrograd  Tramway V and the 0.10, The Store in Moscow. An analysis of Popova's cubo-futurist work also suggests an affinity with the work of Fernand Leger, whose geometry of tubular and conical forms in his series of paintings from 1913–1914 is similar to that in Popova's paintings.
caption: The Pianist, 1914, National Gallery of Canada
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