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Article: The Suprematist: Malevich Abstracts At the Guggenheim.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2003
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
The career of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), whose Suprematist abstractions are the principal subject of a stunning exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, reads at times like a fever chart of early 20th-century aspirations, ideologies and broken dreams. By temperament and conviction, Malevich was a visionary in search of the Absolute, which, in quick succession, he believed he had discovered in Christianity, Russian folk art, theosophy, Impressionism, Bolshevism, Futurism, Cubism, geometry and the Fourth Dimension--all of which led to the creation of his Suprematism. For Malevich, Suprematism was always something ...
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