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Copyright the artist | | | Malevich, Kasimir (1878 - 1935) Russia
Suprematism: 34 Drawings, 1920
Double sided handmade lithographs; 0 x 0 cm Suprematism
UID 102-351
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Biography
Russian painter and designer born near Kiev. His earliest work shows the influence of cubism. In 1912 he began to develop his own style, known as suprematism The artist, in his volume of essays entitled The world of Non-Objectivity defined Suprematism as "the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art", consisting of simple geometrical forms painted in a limited palette,). In 1917-18 he created his well-known White on White series, austere, unearthly images of a white square floating on a white background. The creation of this simple square on a plain ground was a moment of spiritual revelation to Malevich. In his attempts to define this new Suprematist vocabulary, Malevich tried many combinations of rectangle, circle, and cross, oriented vertically and horizontally. Malevich has carried abstraction to an ultimate geometric simplification - the black square. It is noteworthy that Malevich is author of one of the two dominant wings of twentiethcentury abstraction - the hard-edge geometric purity, the other being the painterly Expressionism of Kandinsky. In 1919 he joined M. Chagall at his revolutionary art school in Vitebsk, where he exerted strong influence on E. Lissitzky. In the 1920s he returned to representational painting but could not accede to the government's demand for Socialist Realism. He died in poverty and oblivion in Leningrad. Malevich greatly influenced Western art and design.
Exhibitions
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Malevich e o Cinema Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 17-05-2002 ~ 18-08-2002
Malevich y el Cine Fundación "la Caixa", Spain 12-11-2002 ~ 12-01-2003
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Malevich e o Cinema, 2002 Published by Yale University Press New Haven and London and Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal ISBN 9728176724
Malevich y el Cine, 2002
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
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