Word: suprematist
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...Russia's post-Soviet capitalist experiment, when the ascendant oligarchs feasted on the spoils of the old regime, Vladimir Vinogradov sat atop one of Russia's fattest banks and boasted of a burgeoning art collection-the prized jewel of which was a painting by the genius of the Suprematist movement, Kazimir Malevich...
...canvas in question, one of four known variations of the Black Square, painted in the early part of the last century, would likely fetch at least $20 million at Sotheby's or Christie's. The last Malevich to be sold, Suprematist Composition, was auctioned in New York last May for $17 million. But soon the Vinogradov Black Square is to be sold in Russia for far less-perhaps as little as $2 million. Last month Alexander Yesin, manager of the bankruptcy sale, confirmed that indeed the painting will be auctioned in Russia. What he failed to say, but sources close...
...Rozanova's art ran through a whole gamut of styles. Early works depict people in everyday settings such as parks or cafs. Disjointed combinations of overlapping, spiraling objects mark Rozanova's shift towards futurism. Rozanova's suprematist paintings lack any semblance to the naturalistic scenes of her earlier works. Her textile designs and simple shapes recall Malevich's abstract geometrical configurations and her planes of overlapping color bring to mind the paintings of Sonia Delaunay...
...dismantling of artistic conventions, for putting imagination into free fall and thus, Malevich believed, becoming one with nature: "Nature's perfection lies in the absolute, blind freedom of units within it." One joined nature in its absoluteness by painting abstractly. However cloudy Malevich's voluble theories are, his Suprematist paintings are as decisive as razors: those forceful, exquisite arrangements of planes, asserting their aesthetic self- sufficiency on a white ground (which was also the celestial white background of Moscow icons) have an almost heroic daring, which he would push still further in the plain black crosses and black squares...
KAZIMIR MALEVICH: 1878-1935. This sweeping retrospective shows off all phases of Malevich's avant-garde artistic career, from his abstract suprematist masterpieces to styles as diverse as neoprimitivism and cubo-futurism. At the National Gallery of Art, Washington, through...