Aleksandr Shevchenko

For the Russian ice hockey player, see Alexander Shevchenko

Aleksandr (Vasilievich) Shevchenko (1883–1948) was a highly influential Russian avant-garde painter and theorist. In 1913 he wrote the book 'Neo-primiivizm', from which the Russian art movement derives its name.

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