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Malevich Kasimir . 1878--1935, Russian painter. He founded the abstract art movement known as Suprematism How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Yet the early abstracts of Kandinsky and Malevich are some of the most lyrical and optimistic paintings ever created: whole new relationships between humankind and the physical world are explored. He probably would have had an easier time if he had just stated in his art that painting was "dead"--a ritual in twentieth-century art that had already been enacted by Duchamp in 1913, Malevich in 1918, Rodchenko in 1921, etc. Theosophy, a philosophic movement of the late 19th century that focused on the spiritual structure of the universe, also influenced the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimer Malevich, and other contemporaries (4). |
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