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.^[1][2]

References

• Jeremy Howard; Ir?na Bužinska (11 February 2016). Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism: A Charter for the Avant-Garde. Routledge. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-317-00103-4.