burro's tail

(bûr'ōz, bʊr'-, bŭr'-)
n.
A Mexican plant (Sedum morganianum) grown chiefly as a houseplant for its hanging, taillike stems covered with succulent, overlapping leaves. Also called donkey's tail.

Russian group of painters active in 1911-15. It was led by Mikhail Larionov and Natal'ya Goncharova. The name was chosen by Larionov and recalled a famous artistic scandal in Paris, when a picture, painted by tying a brush to a donkey's tail, was exhibited without comment at the Salon des Ind?pendants of 1905. The Donkey's Tail group was the result of a difference in aesthetic ideology within the JACK OF DIAMONDS group. While most of their colleagues in Jack of Diamonds preferred to rely on the example of contemporary French and German painting, Larionov and Goncharova adopted the view that their art should evolve from the stylistic traditions of popular Russian art forms, such as the icon and lubok (a type of wood-engraving). A few, such as Kazimir Malevich and Alexsey Morgunov (1884-1935), shared their views and resigned in order to help found Donkey's Tail in 1911. The official launch of the group took place in early 1912 at the Jack of Diamonds conference, when Goncharova and Larionov interrupted the proceedings and, 'in a halo of scandal' (Livshits), proclaimed the formation of Donkey's Tail and their secession from Jack of Diamonds.

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