May 2012
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May 26th
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May 25th
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The spiritual life can be accurately represented by a diagram of a large acute triangle divided into unequal parts, with the most acute and smallest division at the top. The farther down one goes, the larger, broader, more extensive, and deeper become the divisions of the triangle. The whole triangle moves slowly, barely perceptibly, forward and upward, so that where the highest point is “today;”...
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 2nd
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April 2012
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“Isn’t it enough [to ask] from us a dull life, in which nothing is valued,...”
– Alexander Rodchenko
Apr 24th
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Apr 12th
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The Art of the Savage and its Principles →
To create means to live, forever creating newer and newer things. And however much we arrange furniture about rooms, we will not extend or create a new form for them. And however many moonlit landscapes the artist paints, however many grazing cows and pretty sunsets, they will remain the same dear little cows and sunsets. Only in a much worse form. And in fact, whether an artist is a genius or...
Apr 12th
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“It is from zero, that the true movement of being begins.”
– Kazimir Malevich
Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 3rd
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March 2012
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Mar 10th
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Mar 10th
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The Work Ahead of Us
The foundation on which our work in plastic art – our craft – rested was not homogeneous, and every connection between painting, sculpture and architecture had been lost: the result was individualism, i.e. the expression of purely personal habits and tastes; while the artists, in their approach to the material, degraded it to a sort of distortion in relation to one or another field of plastic art....
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Mar 3rd
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Kazimir Malevich, From Cubism and Futurism to... →
“I have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art. I have destroyed the ring of the horizon and got out of the circle of objects, the horizon ring that has imprisoned the artist and the forms of nature. This accursed ring, by continually revealing novelty after novelty, leads the artist away from the aim of destruction....
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
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February 2012
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Russian avant-garde will be back to its regular programming soon after the blogger hurdles through her final examinations at the University next week. Thank you all for staying in the boat. x
Feb 29th
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Is it just me, or are hyperboloid structures extra cool?
Feb 23rd
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Kazimir Malevich, The Question of Imitative Art... →
“It is necessary to consciously place creativity as the aim of life, as the perfection of oneself, and therefore current views on art must be changed: art is not a picture of pleasures, decoration, mood, experience or the conveyance of beautiful nature. This type of art no longer exists; nor do jesters, dancers and other miscellaneous theatrical grimacers (these monkeyish grimaces have also...
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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