Malevich

[muh-ley-vich, muh-lye-vyich]

noun

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

Malevich

/ ˈmalɪvitʃ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

"There is no evidence of Malevich's works circulating in the Russian or Ukrainian art markets of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Malevich's own records mention no private sales after 1917," said Konstantin Akinsha.

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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.

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

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The battlefield is a pair of big overlapping crosses, black and red, amped-up versions of those of the Russian Constructivist Kazimir Malevich.

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Especially important is her virtual banishment of white — which is so closely tied to geometric abstraction’s supposed purity, from Malevich and Mondrian forward.

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