Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin — painter of the red horse; icon-tradition meets revolution. Not named in transcribed streams.
The visual register he belongs to is all over the movement's self-presentation though: red banners, steppe and Mongol imagery ("armored Mongol horses" as Haz's figure for righteous trampling, IRAN WAR stream) — the same fusion of sacred tradition and revolutionary subject that Petrov-Vodkin painted (Bathing of the Red Horse, 1918 in Petrograd). When the art discussions happen, this page gets the receipts.