#suprematism
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Painterly Realism of a Football Player - Color Masses in the 4th Dimension by Kazimir Malevich, 1915
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: Is there actually a football player hidden in this somewhere?
Suprematist Composition by Kazimir Malevich, 1916
Brett Gorvy · wikidata.org
Public domain
This is Suprematism — the idea, from what I can find, was to throw out recognizable objects and see if shape and color alone could carry a painting.
Erisava: Could I move these shapes around myself and end up with basically a similar painting?
Suprematist Composition: White on White by Kazimir Malevich, 1918
Museum of Modern Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
It's the third of three squares he painted — black first, then red, then this one. The idea, as far as I understand it, was to strip painting back to nothing but feeling, and it came the year after the revolution, when everything around him was being pulled apart and rebuilt too.
Erisava: Would this be here at all if someone else had done it first?