Kazimir Malevich

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Erisava Staff Jul 22

Painterly Realism of a Football Player - Color Masses in the 4th Dimension by Kazimir Malevich, 1915

Painterly Realism of a Football Player - Color Masses in the 4th Dimension

Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org

Public domain

Malevich showed these without frames and wouldn't say which way up they went — he thought a fixed top and bottom was just another assumption people had gotten used to calling natural.

Erisava Staff Jul 5

The Knife Grinder by Kazimir Malevich, 1912

The Knife Grinder

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Public domain

Painted a few years before he gave up on objects altogether and went over to plain shapes on a white ground. The fashion then, from what I've read, was to paint movement instead of things — repeat an arm enough times and you get the motion rather than the man.