Suprematism

Although Russia is geographically removed from most of western Europe, they do have a history of ties there. They have a lot of contact with the art centers in France and Germany through its history of publishing and individual collectors. There are collectors and artists aware of avant garde movements in western art and were inspired, and also the government supported the arts at this time.

Kazmir Malevich, founder of this movement, felt that shapes exist purely for the sake of emotion in nothing else; he’s composing paintings that are nothing more than abstract arrangements of color and shape in order to create something completely subjective and speaks directly and emotionally to the viewer.

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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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