Cubism Artist: Elena Guru.

Elena Guru(1877-1913)was a talented painter as well as a poet who worked during the period of transition between Russian Symbolism and Futurism. Her texts were inspired by and devoted to St.Petersburg and was written between 1905-1910. The fact that Guro moved from painting to text may have been inspired by the nature of language and particularly prose. According to Markov, Guro stands as probably the most representative of all Russian impressionists. In here work Guro combines fragments which show objective scenes, her emphasis is placed on her brush and what we are given is not a complete picture but a mosaic of details which can be combined in different ways for what the poet/painter is unveiling for e.g. a picture of the city, its atmosphere and the frame of mind of her personae. Guro also admired Brjusov, Blok and Belyj and she read Verlaine, Verhaeren adn Vide'-Griffin.