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Malevich

American  
[muh-ley-vich, muh-lye-vyich] / məˈleɪ vɪtʃ, məˈlyɛ vyɪtʃ /

noun

  1. Kasimir 1878–1935, Russian painter: founder of suprematism.


Malevich British  
/ ˈmalɪvitʃ /

noun

  1. Kasimir (kəziˈmir). 1878–1935, Russian painter. He founded the abstract art movement known as Suprematism

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Paintings by Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Kazimir Malevich, Egon Schiele and others provide a look at different, usually more radical, deviations into modernism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

Three previously unknown oil paintings attributed to avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich are on show at a public museum in Bucharest.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2025

Creating a language that might be universal was a utopian social ambition embedded in the work of their abstract contemporaries, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

His elemental patterns can be found across cultures — in ancient temples or the early 20th century paintings of Russian suprematist Kazimir Malevich.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

“White on White” is a painting by the avant-garde Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, who died in 1935, and it is un-Googleable.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021