Cubist Cityscape - Liubov Popova - Framed picture 11 x 14

Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer.

She grew up with a strong interest in art, especially Italian Renaissance painting. At eleven years old she began formal art lessons at home; by the age of 18 she was studying with Stanislav Zhukovsky, and entered the private studios of Konstantin Yuon and Ivan Dudin. Later, she began attending the studios of the Cubist painters Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger.

Through a synthesis of styles Popova worked towards what she termed painterly architectonics. After first exploring Impressionism, by 1913, in Composition with Figures, she was experimenting with the particularly Russian development of Cubo-Futurism: a fusion of two equal influences from France and Italy.

Lyubov Popova was one of the first female pioneers in Cubo-Futurism.