Editing Varvara Stepanova (section)

{{Short description|Russian artist (1894–1958)}}
{{family name hatnote|Fyodorovna|Stepanova|lang=Eastern Slavic}}{{Infobox artist
| name             = Varvara Stepanova
| image            = File:Варвара Степанова во время подготовки представления, 1924 (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Varvara Stepanova, 1924
| nationality      = Russian
| spouse           = [[Alexander Rodchenko]]
| birth_date       = November 1894
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1958-05-20|1894-11-04}}
| movement         = [[Productivist art]], a branch of [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivism]]
| birth_place      = [[Kaunas|Kovno]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_place      = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]]
}}
'''Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova''' ({{langx|ru|Варва́ра Фёдоровна Степа́нова}}; {{OldStyleDate|3 November|1894|22 October}}{{refn|group="note"|name=Date of Birth|Sources differ regarding the date of birth, in which they wrote either 3, 4 or 9 November based on the [[Gregorian calendar]].}} – May 20, 1958)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/coleccion/obras_ficha_biografia742.html|title=Varvara Stepanova|access-date=October 6, 2008|archive-date=November 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121101220/http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/coleccion/obras_ficha_biografia742.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a Russian artist. With her husband [[Alexander Rodchenko]], she was associated with the [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivist]] branch of the Russian avant-garde, which rejected aesthetic values in favour of revolutionary ones. Her activities extended into propaganda, poetry, stage scenery and textile designs.