The
Russian avant-garde was a large, influential wave of
modern art that flourished in the
Russian Empire and
Soviet Union, approximately 1890 to 1930—although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960. The term covers many separate, but inextricably related,
art movements that flourished at the time; namely
Suprematism,
Constructivism,
Russian Futurism,
Cubo-Futurism,
Zaum and
Neo-primitivism. Given that many avant-garde artists involved were born or grew up in what is present day
Belarus and
Ukraine (including
Kazimir Malevich,
Aleksandra Ekster,
Vladimir Tatlin,
Wassily Kandinsky,
David Burliuk,
Alexander Archipenko), some sources also talk about
Ukrainian avant-garde.