Word: nonabstract
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Moscow, Introduction to the Jewish Theatre. Created by Chagall to decorate that city's 90-seat State Jewish Chamber Theater, it was also a manifesto of his deliberately impure aesthetic, in 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...