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Greatness through simplicity: Ukrainian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist of Polish origin, art theorist, and one of the founders of Suprematism, a new direction in abstract painting. Biography He was born on 23 February 1879 in Kyiv into a large family that combined Polish and Ukrainian cultural traditions. He spent his childhood in Podillia, later moving to the Kharkiv and Chernihiv ...

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