Word: malevich
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...German art with a particular emphasis on German Expressionism. The stark curation and sparing use of didactic wall texts are appropriately austere, boldly offsetting the colorful effusiveness of Gerhard Richter and the restrained hysteria of Max Beckmann. Also notable is a series of Bauhaus paintings (including works by Malevich and El Lissitsky), a pair of Jawlensky portraits, and an unusual Klimt. Currently on display is a collection of works by Hannah Darboven, touted by the curatorial staff as "one of the most important active German artists today." While Darboven's cutting-edge exploration of calendrical counting systems is mildly thought...
...practice, it wasn't tried in any systematic fashion until after 1910, when the three founding fathers of abstract painting--two Russians, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich, and a Dutchman, Piet Mondrian--came, more or less simultaneously, to believe that pure form, in opposing what they saw as the deadly materialism of European culture, could open the way to a world of pure spirit. Abstraction would become a language, the key to utopian states of mental and social harmony that had been only dimly implied in art before. Abstract art would be the music of the spheres for the 20th...
...DUTCH ARTIST PIET MONdrian, along with the Russians Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, was one of the three founding fathers of 20th century abstract painting. The period 1910-20, when their ideas were in their first messianic flood, is a long way from us now, and the very idea of abstract art has lost some of its old modernist prestige; nobody supposes it could have become, as its makers and early evangelists supposed, the ultimate art form, the end of art history. And yet Mondrian remains an artist of extreme importance, not only because of the historic inventiveness...
...Petersburg, a culture that pullulated with avant- garde splinter groups and wild chiliastic claims, exquisitely attuned not only to Russian traditions of religious mysticism but also to Cubism, Futurism, Symbolism and other currents in Paris, Rome, Vienna. To imagine that the work of spiritually obsessed artists like Kandinsky or Malevich had any filial relationship to Marxism is to miss its meaning. Malevich, an egomaniacal genius who called himself "the president of space" and imagined that his art could translate all humankind onto a higher plane, was as far from dialectical materialism as a man could...
...millenarian religion can one argue a link between such artists and the ideology of the revolution. The motor of new Russian art was its belief that the world was on the brink of inconceivable change. Sever the strands of the past, leap into the future. "Only he is alive," Malevich pronounced, "who rejects his convictions of yesterday." Lissitzky's "prouns" -- a term he coined from the Russian words meaning project of the affirmation of the new -- resemble plans or aerial views of Utopian structures, an abstract New Jerusalem in paint. They are a middle ground between Malevich's absolutism...