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Kazimir Malevich
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Also Known As Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
Born February 23, 1878 • near Kyiv • Ukraine
Died May 15, 1935 (aged 57) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Founder Suprematism
Notable Works “White on White”
Movement / Style Minimalism • Suprematism • abstract art • Cubo-Futurism

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Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova
Russian artist
Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov
Russian artist
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova
Russian artist
Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky
Russian artist
Ivan Vasilyevich Klyun
Russian artist and art theorist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Goncharova, Natalya: Religious Composition; Archangel Michael
Natalya Goncharova
Russian artist
Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov
Russian painter
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
El Lissitzky cover
El Lissitzky
Russian artist
David Davidovich Burlyuk
Russian poet, painter, critic, and publisher
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster
Russian artist
Ivan Albertovich Puni
Russian artist
Yelena Genrikhovna Guro
Russian artist and writer
Sonia Delaunay
Russian artist
Serge Poliakoff
painter and lithographer
Petrov-Vodkin, Kuzma Sergeyevich: Bathing the Red Horse
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Russian painter
André Lhote
French artist
Eduardo MacEntyre
Argentine artist
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
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