The Geometry of Rebellion To look at the work of Nadezhda Udaltsova is to witness the precise moment when the Russian avant-garde found its structural teeth. She did not merely participate in Cubism; she dismantled it and rebuilt it through a lens of rigorous construction. While many of her contemporaries drifted into pure abstraction, Udaltsova maintained a tension between the physical world and the geometric plane. Her presence in the 1915 exhibitions, such as Tramway V and The Last Futurist Exhibition: 0.10, marked a definitive shift toward a more calculated, architectural approach to pai…