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Kazimir Malevich

Three Women
Girl with Red Flagpole 


(born , Feb. 23, 1878, near Kiev, Russiadied May 15, 1935, Leningrad) Russian painter and designer. He discovered Cubism on a trip to Paris in 1912 and returned to lead the Russian Cubist movement. In 1915 he exhibited paintings more abstractly geometrical than any seen before, consisting of simple geometrical forms painted in a limited palette, a style he called Suprematism.


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Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt, 1928-1932
Kazimir Malevich,(1878 - 1935 ) Russian painter, who was the founder of the Suprematist school of abstract painting.
Malevich was trained at the Kiev School of Art and the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. In his early work he followed Impressionism as well as Fauvism, and, after a trip to Paris in 1912, he was influenced by Picasso and Cubism. As a member of the Jack of Diamonds group, he led the Russian Cubist movement.
In 1913 Malevich created abstract geometrical patterns in a manner he called Suprematism. All images via wikipedia




(born , Feb. 23, 1878, near Kiev, Russiadied May 15, 1935, Leningrad) Russian painter and designer. He discovered Cubism on a trip to Paris in 1912 and returned to lead the Russian Cubist movement. In 1915 he exhibited paintings more abstractly geometrical than any seen before, consisting of simple geometrical forms painted in a limited palette, a style he called Suprematism.


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