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The Central Exhibition Hall in Perm hosts the exhibition "Bag"
15.04.2015
The opening of the exhibition, where two expositions of world famous artists Peter Frolov and Natalia Tur are presented, took place on February 27.
There are no funds in the Louvre for the exhibition of Jeff Koons
13.04.2015
The management of the Louvre was forced to cancel an exhibition of works by the artist Jeff Koons due to lack of funding.
10 years after the cancellation, it was decided to return the Edvard Munch Award
10.04.2015
Finally, after many years of calm, the premium has been restored.
This happened thanks to the support of the Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil.
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878, Kiev 1935, Leningrad) was an avant garde artist.
Born in the family of a plant manager.
From the age of 11, he drew and painted a lot.
In 1894, he graduated from the fifth grade agronomic school.
In 1895-1896 he studied at a drawing school, then moved with his family to Kursk.
There he participated in the created circle of art lovers and served as a draftsman, earning money for living and studying in Moscow.
In 1904 he came to Moscow, where he briefly attended classes at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and at the Stroganov School.
In 1905, he returned to Kursk and independently studied painting.
In 1907, he took his first known catalog participation in the exhibition of the Moscow Association of Artists, where, in addition to Malevich's works, paintings by V. V. Kandinsky and others were presented.
Malevich worked a lot on the canvases of a new painting system, which he called " Suprematism "("Black Square", 1913), the principles of which were outlined by him in the manifesto brochure " From Cubism to Suprematism.
A new pictorial realism".
After the February Revolution of 1917, Malevich was elected chairman of the Art Section of the Moscow Union of Soldiers ' Deputies.
He developed a project for the creation of the People's Academy of Arts, was a commissioner for the protection of ancient monuments and a member of the Commission for the Protection of Artistic Values of the Kremlin.
After the October Revolution, he created sets and costumes for the production of V. V. Mayakovsky's "Mystery Buff", wrote a theoretical work "On new systems in Art", together with Chagall in Vitebsk, he led a workshop at the People's Art School, participated in exhibitions.
In 1922 he finished the manuscript " Suprematism.
The world as Pointlessness or eternal peace", published in 1962 in German.
Since 1922, Malevich taught drawing at the architectural department of the Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineers.
In 1923, he was appointed director of the Institute for Research on the Culture of Modern Art.
In 1926, after a pogrom article in Leningradskaya Pravda, the institute was liquidated, and Malevich was dismissed.
In 1927, Malevich exhibited his paintings in Berlin.
In 1928-1930 he taught at the Kiev Art Institute.
In 1929, his personal exhibition was held at the State Tretyakov Gallery.
In 1930, his works were exhibited in Austria and Germany; he gave a course of lectures on the theory of painting at the Leningrad House of Arts.
In the autumn of 1930, Malevich was arrested by the OGPU, but was released in early December.
In 1931, he painted murals in the Red Theater of Leningrad.
In 1932, he became the head of the experimental laboratory at the State Russian Museum, participated in exhibitions.
He died after a serious illness.
Abstract art
Suprematism
Cubofuturism
See also:
Balla Giacomo Beckman Max Vasareli Victor Goncharova Natalia Sergeevna Gris Juan Dali Salvador Jones Jasper Duchamp Marcel Jeanneret Charles Edouard (Le Corbusier) Kandinsky Vasily Vasilyevich Klee Paul Kooning Willem De Larionov Mikhail Fedorovich Matisse Henri Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Mondrian Pete Ozanfan Amede Pollock Jackson Picasso Pablo Rousseau, Henri Julien Felix Warhol Andy Frantisek Kupka Rodchenko Alexander Mikhailovich
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