Inception
The Knave of Diamonds was an exhibition that opened in Moscow in December 1910. That exhibition featured French cubist paintings by Le Fauconnier, Lhote, Gleizes and Metzinger beside works of four Russian artists expelled from the Moscow Art School due to their "leftist tendencies". A stated objective of the exhibition was "to offer young Russian artists who find it extremely difficult to get accepted for exhibitions under the existing indolence and cliquishness of our artistic spheres, the chance to get onto the main road."
Subsequently the title was adopted by a newly formed artistic society in Moscow. Soon thereafter, this group became the largest and one of the most significant exhibition societies of the early Russian avant-garde.
The name itself was coined by Mikhail Larionov for the exhibition of 1910 because he liked the sound of it. A contemporary account included, "Organisers regard the title Knave of Diamonds as a symbol of young enthusiasm and passion, 'for the knave implies youth and the suit of diamonds represents seething blood.'" Among the famous painters that participated in the first Jack of Diamonds exhibition were Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Gontcharova, Kazimir Malevich (and later, Léopold Survage).
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