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Artist | Kazimir Malevich |
Year | 1915 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 53 by 53 centimetres (21 in × 21 in) |
Location | Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg |
Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, also know as Red Square, is a 1915 painting by Kazimir Malevich. Red Square was part of Malevich's Suprematist art movement (1915-1919), where he sought to create artworks that were universally understood.
A non-representational work, Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, is depiction of a red quadrilateral on a white field.
Red Square is currently in the collection of the Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The use of the square was first introduced by Malevich in 1913 as stage curtains for the Russian Futurist/Cubo-Futurist opera “Victory Over the Sun,”. The design reflected the synthesis of Russian and Western European art in the eve of World War I.[1]
It was later displayed at The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 in Petrograd alongside other notable works by Malevich including Black Square and White on White.[2]
Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, unlike Black Square and Black Circle, was not included in "First Russian Art Exhibition" held in Berlin in 1922 as the Red Square was not considered important to UNOVIS.[3]
Exhibiting Malevich's Suprematist paintings, like Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, proves difficult as it is not always clear what is the top or the bottom of the canvas. Even exhibitions where Malevich helped mount the works, it is likely that the paintings were hung in various positions.[4]
Emphasizing pure abstraction and geometric shape Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions is an example of Suprematism. Concerned only with form and the purity of shape, particularly that of the square, Malevich primarily considered Suprematism as an exploration of visual language as well as a step in the evolution of religious understanding[5]. The rejection of form was a fundamental premise of Suprematism.[6] For Malevich, Suprematism was purely aesthetic, divorced from political or social meaning.[1]
On the back canvas of Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, there is an inscription that reads "Peasant Woman (Suprematis|m|)", making this one of the first times Malevich used term "Suprematism".[1]
One year before Malevich's death, three of his paintings including Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions were accepted for restoration. The reasoning behind the restoration was due to the painterly layers flaking as well as some minor losses to the coats of paint. [7]The flaking of the painting likely occurred due to Malevich repainting a section of Red Square that had previously been painted. These paintings have been continually restored, with the most detailed restorations taking place in 1976 and 1988.[7]
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