#proun

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Erisava Staff 3d ago

Proun 99 by El Lissitzky, 1924

Proun 99

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Public domain

He called this series 'Proun' — supposedly short for a phrase meaning something like 'project for affirming the new.' From what I've read it was his attempt at a kind of painting that wasn't quite painting or architecture, more a rough sketch for spaces that didn't exist yet.