Word: malevich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year is running (until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo...
...seven-room apartment in a prefabricated building on Vernadskovo Prospekt. on the outskirts of Moscow. There, from floor to ceiling, cramming the rooms and narrow corridors, were about 380 paintings from the critical years of the Russian avantgarde, 1910-25: the work of such artists as Wassily Kandinsky. Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tallin. El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, Liubov Popova. An official storeroom of officially disapproved art? Not at all: a private collection belonging to a pipe-puffing, guitar-playing Greek named George Costakis...
...works out to a not overly impressive $8,000,000 a year. The only exchange that he has already concluded involved neither money nor commercial products but art works. He donated a Goya portrait to the Hermitage museum in Leningrad and received in return an abstract painting by Kasimir Malevich, whose work is in such deep disfavor among Soviet officials that it has not been exhibited in more than 40 years...
Born in Manhattan to a Polish immigrant couple in 1905, he used to skip high school classes to spend the day at the Metropolitan Museum. As a student at the Art Students League, he became aware of the dilemma that Malevich and Mondrian had left their successors: where to go from white on white and skin-and-bones geometry? "Painting is finished, we should all give it up," he told a friend, Painter Adolph Gottlieb. World War II added a new dimension to his personal crisis. "How can you continue painting guys playing the fiddle, flowers and sweetness when...
...squares, prophetic of the direction that Vasarely would take. It was not until after the war that the artist, spurred on by the enterprising Paris dealer Denise Rene, was able to devote himself full time to his art. He read numerous scientific volumes and decided that Mondrian and Malevich had written fini to easel painting. "Pure physics suddenly revealed itself before my dazed eyes as the new poetic source," he recalls. By 1955, he had developed an alphabet -"planetary folklore," he calls it-composed of geometric forms and basic colors capable of infinite arrangements...