| Theatre has always occupied a central place in Russian artistic life, and in the early twentieth century avant- garde painters bean experimenting with the stage as a visual laboratory . Artists such as Exter , Lissitzky, Malevich, Papova , Rodchenko, Stepnova and Tatlin revolutionized costume, set and poster design bringing an imagenative vitality to the stage that has rarely been equalled. |
| Theatre has always occupied a central place in Russian artistic life, and in the early twentieth century avant- garde painters bean experimenting with the stage as a visual laboratory . Artists such as Exter , Lissitzky, Malevich, Papova , Rodchenko, Stepnova and Tatlin revolutionized costume, set and poster design bringing an imagenative vitality to the stage that has rarely been equalled. |