| The Four Arts | |
| Type: | Non-governmental organization |
| Founded Date: | 1924 Moscow, Leningrad, USSR |
| Location: | Moscow, Leningrad |
| Area Served: | USSR |
| Focus: | Modern art, live art, performance |
| Method: | social center, innovation |
‘The Four Arts’ (in Russian: Четыре искусства) was an art association that existed in Moscow and Leningrad in 1924-1931. Was also known as the ‘4 Arts’.
The society was founded by artists who had previously been members of the ‘World of Art’ and the ‘Blue Rose’. The association included painters and graphic artists, sculptors and architects, as a rule, belonging to the older generation, so all members of the association were characterised by high professional skill, precisely worked out image structure and expressiveness, the ability to use the accumulated experience in application to new tasks set by modern art and urban planning. It existed in parallel with such organisations as the ‘Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia’ (AKhRR) and the ‘Society of Artists-Stankovists’ (OST), but along with the ‘Society of Moscow Artists’ (OMH), the masters of the association with piety treated the problems of cultural preservation and preserved the language of the work, its artistic form - a very important part of the artistic work.
The artists were very different from each other in their creative style.
The Society often held exhibitions in Moscow (in 1925, 1926 and 1929) and in Leningrad in 1928. It joined the AKhRR in 1931.
Significant works: Petrov-Vodkin (After the Battle, 1923; Girl at the Window, 1928; Anxiety, 1935, Death of a Commissar, 1928), Kuznetsov (Construction of Yerevan, 1931; Sorting Cotton, 1931; Processing Tuff, 1931; Gathering Tea, 1928).
In 1929, in the magazine Art to the Masses, D. Mirlas published a critical article that was essentially a political denunciation.