Страшное в живописи позднего авангарда

In this article the author investigates the category of the “terrifying” and “terror” in painting of the later Russian Avant-Garde of the late twenties and early thirties of the twenthieth century. Although the phenomenon has its parallels in literature, it is prominently manifest in the pictorial arts. It cannot be reduced to a single denominator but can be distinguished in four categories in which the focus is on object, subject, or both, or on the viewer respectively. The author analyses some paintings, in particular one by the artist Kliment Red'ko. Other artists discussed are the later Malevich and Filonov.