Word: malevich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constructivism began in Russia as a spidery brand of pure and formal abstraction. Some proclaim Naum Gabo as its founder; some argue that his brother, Antoine Pevsner, has an equal claim; and some urge the case of Painter Kasimir Malevich. Now Stockholm's Modern Museum has mounted an exhibit of paintings, photographs and models designed to show that Vladimir Tallin (1885-1953) was the most constructive constructivist...
...Pablo Picasso's cubist collages. He returned to startle Moscow in 1915 with an exhibit of totally abstract collages made of tin, piping and paper. "Scandal!" cried the critics. Tatlin responded by coining the word constructivism, indicating that his art was essentially creative rather than destructive. Malevich, Gabo and others thereupon declared themselves constructivists...
...impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." For the first 20th century abstract artists, the impossible was "the accreted imagery that has been a characteristic of visual art ever since the Renaissance." First to jettison traditional images altogether, as MacAgy shows, was the Russian suprematist Kasimir Malevich, with his revolutionary 1913 drawings of two squares and a circle...
Refound Ancestors. The art that followed-nonobjective, nonemotional and nonutilitarian-was, and for the most part still is, anathema to the common man. To the suprematists, it was an epochal breakthrough, even though Malevich later recalled that he felt "a kind of timidity bordering on fear when I was called upon to leave the world of will and idea in which I had lived and worked; but the blissful feeling of liberating nonobjectivity drew me into the desert, where nothing is real but feeling...
...Last Ism. Soviet critics, too, were soon after Chagall's hide, dubbing his misbegotten revolution in art a "mystic and formalistic bacchanal." But the purge came from the quarter he least expected. He had hired two painters, Malevich and Lissitzky, members of the suprematist school of painting, to teach in Vitebsk's Free Academy. One day he returned from Moscow to find that they had taken over the school, and based its new curriculum on their brand of geometrical abstraction and pure objectivity...