Matushin Mikhail Vasilyevich (1861-1934)

In the life and work of the composer, painter, teacher and thinker MV Matyushina music and painting constantly neighbors, interact, mutually enriching each other, and gave rise to a kind of color-music theory.

He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in 1876-81 years., And from 1881 to 1913 was the "first violin" Imperial Orchestra in St. Petersburg. In those same years (1894-98), he studied at the School of Drawing at OPH, in 1903-05. - In the studio of the artist JF Tsionglinskogo in 1906-08. - In the private studio of E. Zvantseva.

In the studio he met Tsionglinskogo E. Guro , his future wife, Minded, also the versatile person. Together they founded the publishing house "Crane" that produced up to 1917 twenty books. Having become acquainted with the poets and artists, futurists D. D. and V. D. Burliuk , V. Kamensky, Vladimir Khlebnikov, Matushin simultaneously communicates with the writers of the older generation - VI Ivanov, AM Remizov, F. K Sologub.

Under the initiative, and Guro Matyushina in November 1909 created the Petersburg Society of Artists' Union of Youth "(1910-14). On six exhibitions of the society was represented, in fact, the diversity of contemporary avant-garde movements. They themselves in the artistic life of the time were the pole intuitive, organic, synthetic, as opposed to constructive pole, mechanical, analytical Moscow avant-garde.

In 1911 Matushin read books mathematics Theosophist PD Assumption transmitting a holistic way of perceiving and understanding the world, the universe, man. It has produced a revolution in his creative mind, all created Matiushin unwinding and develops the ideas contained in the works of the Dormition. "Union of Youth" in conjunction with the poetic association "Gilea", which included V. Khlebnikov, A. Kruchenykh, BK Livshits, proclaimed the establishment of the new Futurist theater "Budetlyanin" and in December 1913 presented the opera twisted " Victory over the Sun ", the music for which was written by Matushin, and design completed Malevich and twisted.

Since 1914 Matushin acted as a writer, art critic and writer. He published a book of A. and J. Glez Metsenzhe "About Cubism," which caused a great resonance. In the "First Russian magazine Russian Futurists" published the article "Futurism in St. Petersburg." Created a musical composition "Don Quixote", "Autumn Dream".

In 1916 he wrote a series of "meditation" landscapes, which sounded the theme of the meeting of heaven and earth: the sky falls to the ground, and the ground rises into the sky. Matushin researcher went down in history as the founder of Russian art of the original theory of the "expanded vision", which is based on the study of space and the principles of interaction of color and protection, color and shape, color and sound, form and time. Various aspects of these problems are reflected in the articles, reports, lectures Matyushina 1920.: "The experience of the artist of the new measure" (1912-26), "Science in Art" (1926), "Experience a new sense of space" (1928) "What is organic culture in Art" (1927-28).