Kazimir Malevich

There are wonderful paintings by Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, the best Marc Chagall I've seen ( "The Promenade," from 1917-18), a fantastic "Portrait of Anna Akhmatova" (1915) by Nathan Altman, a triptych composed of what the catalog calls Kazimir Malevich's "most legendary compositions" (all circa 1923), and some terrific paintings by Vladimir Tatlin, whose wacky design for a tower that was to dominate Moscow forms a coda to this thrilling show.

From Russia With Art: 2008

Other works feature colorful groups of geometric shapes or images of people and animals suspended in midair, his artistic nods to countrymen Kazimir Malevich and Marc Chagall.

Wry Visions of Cups, Wolves and Soviets 2011

Lighted, often distractingly, by Mr. Fields, with expansive areas of shaped light that suggest images in Kazimir Malevich paintings crossed with those of Mark Rothko, "Thirteen Diversions" presents an impressive, if congested, array of richly athletic solo, couple and group dancing.

Not the Usual ABT Fare Robert Greskovic 2011

For Mr. Gergiev's Mariinsky in 2009, the ballet was given new choreography by Mr. Ratmansky and wonderful designs by Maxim Isayev, whose geometric, primary-color scheme harks back to the bold and spare world of Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist vision, when it doesn't stray off into Chagall-like fancies.

Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New Robert Greskovic 2011

And it exposes Palermo's own conflicted urges and influences, which veered between the rigorous abstraction of Europeans Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich and Americans Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly, on the one hand, and the nonchalance and gamesmanship of Conceptualism on the other.

Contradictions, Equivocations Lance Esplund 2011

Yet while the Bauhaus is enshrined in the history of European architecture and modernism, the Russians are often sidelined, and only a few protagonists—such as Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky—are widely known by nonspecialists.

Ideology Through Geometry Cammy Brothers 2011

LONDON — How many paintings does an American museum have to sell to raise funds for a single canvas by Russian modern painter Kazimir Malevich?

Chicago Museum Sells Four Works to Pay for Malevich Kelly Crow 2011

By then, he had tasted the frustrations of being an artist in the new Soviet Union and crossed swords with such ideologically rigid modernist figures as Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky.

Chagall Through the Eyes of Paris 2011

"The four works at Christie's had been considered for deaccession for some time — because curators felt that we had more important examples by these artists from the respective periods — and the timing was right for us considering the recent availability of a work by Kazimir Malevich."

Chicago Museum Sells Four Works to Pay for Malevich Kelly Crow 2011

And it exposes Palermo's own conflicted urges and influences, which veered between the rigorous abstraction of Europeans Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich and Americans Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly, on the one hand, and the nonchalance and gamesmanship of Conceptualism on the other.

Contradictions, Equivocations Lance Esplund 2011