The Malevich Dolls
Russian painter, pioneer of Abstract art, theoretician of the Suprematist Movement during the time of Russian Revolution. After his black square against white ground in 1913 ( MOMA ) it took some 30 years later to reappear in the works of Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschen berg in the USA and Yves Klein in France. His influence on El Lisitsky, the Bauhaus, Kandinsky, and others continues to this day. The Malevich dolls stand 8" high and measures 4" in diameter. There are a total of 7 dolls all nesting into each other. They are painted by hand in his traditional colors. The images show typically the Heros, the peasant, the woodworker, etc. They have the basic techno cylindrical forms and shapes so beloved by Leger and the Bauhaus graphics. (See photographs of the student Theatrical costumes.) The quarter round defined base has a silhouette, not found on contemporary copies. It is shaped from a single block of wood. On the bottom of the base are hand painted the following approx. cyrilic : "No Kapthnhom K. Ma^eBnya Made i n Russia Handwork" Price on demand. Exit to ArchitectsWorkshop Homepage ........................................................... All Images and Content Copyright © David Ming-Li Lowe 1999 - up to present |
