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| | Mir iskusstva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1904, Mir iskusstva was transformed into the Union of Russian Artists which continued officially until 1910 and unofficially until 1924. |
 | | The Union included painters (Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Boris Kustodiev, Zinaida Serebryakova), illustrators (Ivan Bilibin, Konstantin Somov), restorators (Igor Grabar), and scenic designers (Nicholas Roerich, Serge Sudeikin). |
 | | Like the English pre-Raphaelites before them, Benois and his friends were disgusted with anti-aesthetic nature of modern industrial society and sought to consolidate all Neo-Romantic Russian artists under the auspices of fighting Positivism in art. |
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