Word: kazimir
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...Russia for what he thought would be a brief visit, only to be trapped there for eight years by war and revolution. Named by the Soviets as arts commissar for Vitebsk, he headed for a time the People's School of Art, where the faculty included the avant-gardists Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. Chagall's vision of a school that would encourage every tendency ran afoul of Malevich's exclusive faith in abstraction. In time Malevich and his followers seized the place in the name of Suprematism and its militant modernism...
...said to themselves, "We like this picture," rather than, "We must have another Matisse." This concern for each painting gives the collection its tautness and also its excitement, particularly when we come across such an oddity of technique as Two Figures in a Landscape (1931-1932) by the Russian Kazimir Malevich. Malevich wrote on color theory in painting, stressing its link to the spiritual. He saw his paintings as icons, channels to another reality; their colors did not need to be realistic. Who are these masked women stiff against a striped landscape as flat as the backdrop in a photographer...
...post-Soviet capitalist experiment, when the ascendant oligarchs feasted on the spoils of the old regime, Vladimir Vinogradov sat atop one of Russia's fattest banks and boasted of a burgeoning art collection-the prized jewel of which was a painting by the genius of the Suprematist movement, Kazimir Malevich...
...Rozanova was a founding member of the "Union of Youth" organization of artists and published articulations of the theoretical foundations of her art in the journal Supremus, founded by Kazimir Malevich. In her article "The Bases of the New Creation and the Reasons Why It Is Misunderstood," Rozanova defines the process of creation in terms of three stages: the intuitive principle, individual transformation of the visible and abstract creation...