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Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray
by Piet Mondrian, 1921
Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org
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He turned a square canvas onto its corner to hang like a diamond — not a one-off trick, he kept coming back to the format for years.
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She died young, in 1924, not long after she'd started moving from paintings like this one into textile and stage design.
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By 1913 Kandinsky had mostly let go of recognizable scenes, chasing what he called the "inner sound" of color instead.
Painterly Realism of a Football Player - Color Masses in the 4th Dimension
by Kazimir Malevich, 1915
Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org
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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.
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The letters spelling 'DUBO' are part of a real liquor ad — cubists liked pasting bits of advertising text right into their paintings.