Jubilant mood ... visitors in front of Ilya Repin's October 17 1905. Photograph: Akira Suemor/AP
A few days before the Royal Academy's much-touted new show, From Russia, opened to the public, the Guardian's Jonathan Jones snuck in to record a podcast tour for us. He stopped off at many of the exhibition's highlights, among them Matisse's The Dance - for some, the star of the show - Ilya Repin's holiday-ish October 1905, in which noisy crowds rejoice at the country's short-lived liberal revolution, and assorted masterworks by Cezanne, Picasso, Lentulov and others. He ends up in front of Malevich's Black Cross, Black Circle and Black Square, works that distilled the language of paint to its stark essentials, colour, form and ground.
We've put two versions of the podcast on the site: a standard mp3 recording, which will work with any normal player; and an enhanced mp4 version, which features embedded pictures. Just click on "Show Artwork" in iTunes and you should be able to get a taste of what Jonathan's describing.
• Click here to listen to the mp3
• Click here to listen to the enhanced version with pictures
