RAIONISMO: LUZ NA TELA, SOMBRA NA LITERATURA

Abstract

This study is about the representation of the light in the painting occidental person. It has its focus in the painting of a Russian movement, of century XX, called Rayonism. For being classified in literature as not-figurative art, one searched to identify if it would be the first notfigurative pictorial expression in Russian. To discover as literature approaches the Rayonism was objective of this study. The methodology was the bibliographical and iconographic research, on the basis of literature translated into the portuguese and published in Brazil, and books edited into the french. Thirty books had been searched and only ten had dealt with the Rayonism. It was concluded that the Rayonism was the first Russian movement to present a not-figurative painting, without the tradition of a narrative.