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Die gegenstandslose Welt
1980
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Kazimir Malevich
?–1935
PaintingSuprematismAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
35
Institutional Exhibitions
80
Works in Collection
177
Assets Indexed
6
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0
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100%
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- • Suprematism
- • Abstract Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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The Cubist Imprint
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Abstractions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Deconstructivist Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Kazimir Malevich reduced painting to its most elemental geometry, founding Suprematism, a movement built on the premise that pure geometric form and a stripped palette could express feeling without recourse to representation. Working in oil on canvas, he constructed compositions of squares, circles, and crosses against white grounds, severing painting from the visible world entirely. His 1915 Black Square, exhibited at the Last Futurist Exhibition in Petrograd, remains one of modernism's most consequential objects. As a theorist alongside his painting practice, Malevich articulated Suprematism as a philosophical position, not merely a formal one.
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