Word: maleviches
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...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...
...which broad bands of color derived plainly from Suprematism are the backdrop--but only the backdrop--for resolutely nonabstract acrobats and livestock. In the lower right-hand corner, just above Chagall's signature, a man urinates directly into the eye of a pig. A parting shot at the Gentile Malevich? Some scholars think...
...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's studio...
...firesale of a Black Square should be scandal enough. But a host of other questions arise. There is, for instance, the question of the "other Maleviches." The bank's collection was formed in secrecy and has never been fully exhibited. But art historians who helped build it say it included two other Malevich paintings, realist portraits dating from the artist's last years, and a drawing called The Reapers. They say the bank also acquired an object resembling an Architecton, Malevich's name for his skyscraper-like sculptures. If authentic, the Architecton would be significant-none has ever been offered...
...Vinogradov, at the height of his orbit, was ferried around Moscow in an armored convoy. His movements resembled military maneuvers. No more. He was spotted recently on a main Moscow thoroughfare-on foot and alone. Malevich lovers, at home and abroad, now worry that the same fate-obscurity-awaits the most alluring gems of the fallen oligarch's treasure trove...