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Exhibition Review
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 436-438
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Reviewer:
Mileeva, Maria (Mileeva, Maria)
Subjects
artists:
Malevich, Kazimir / Yermilov, Vasyl / Boichuk, Mykhailo
dates:
1900-1929
museums and institutions:
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
places:
Ukraine
subjects:
Ukrainian art / Modernism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 29th November 2022–30th April 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Design for the Chess Room at the Central Red Army Club, Kharkiv, by Vasyl Yermilov. 1920. Colour pencil, watercolour and ink on paper pasted on cardboard, 19.2 by 17.4 cm. (National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; exh. Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid).
Attributed works:
2. Costume design for Juliusz Słowacki’s play Mazepa for the Taras Shevchenko Theatre, Kyiv, by Vadym Meller. 1920. Gouache and pencil on paper, 54 by 42 cm. (Museum of Theatre, Music, and Cinema Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv; exh. Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid).
Attributed works:
3. Dairymaid, by Mykhailo Boichuk. Early 1920s. Tempera on canvas, 95 by 45 cm. (National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; exh. Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid)).
Exhibition Review
The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 204-206
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Reviewer:
Blakesley, Rosalind P. (Blakesley, Rosalind P.)
Subjects
artists:
Serov, Valentin / Gogh, Vincent van / Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de / Gallen-Kallela, Akseli / Munch, Edvard / Korovin, Konstantin / Matisse, Henri / Denis, Maurice / Renoir, Pierre-Auguste / Manet, Edouard / Picasso, Pablo / Gauguin, Paul / Cézanne, Paul / Goncharova, Natalia / Malevich, Kazimir
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia / Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia / Gosudarstvennaja Tretjakovskaja Galerja (State Tretyakov Gallery), Moscow, Russia
patrons:
Morozov, Ivan
subjects:
Collections / Russian painting / French art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 22nd September 2021– 22nd February 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Ivan Abramovitch Morozov, Moscow, 1910, by Valentin Serov. 1910. Tempera on cardboard, 63.5 by 77 cm. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; exh. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris).
Attributed works:
24. The cork or Country inn (La Guinguette), by Édouard Manet. c.1878. Oil in canvas, 72.4 by 92 cm. (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris).
Attributed works:
25. Bathers, by Paul Cézanne. 1892–94. Oil on canvas, 26 by 40 cm. (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig. Original and Fake: Questions, Research, Explanations
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 280-282
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Reviewer:
KociaŁkowska, Kamila (KociaŁkowska, Kamila)
Subjects
artists:
Lissitzky, El / Malevich, Kazimir / Popova, Liubov
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
subjects:
Russian art / Forgeries / Technical analysis
subjects:
Attributions / Attributions, former
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig. Original and Fake: Questions, Research, Explanations Museum Ludwig, Cologne 26th September 2020– 7th February 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Proun, formerly attributed to El Lissitzky and dated 1923. Tempera on paper, 61 by 40 cm. (Museum Ludwig, Cologne; photograph Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne).
Attributed works:
15. Infra-red reflectogram of the painting in Fig.14. (Courtesy Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf; photograph Ulrik Runeberg and Inken Holubec).
Attributed works:
16. Painterly architectonic, formerly attributed to Liubov Popova and dated c.1920. Oil on canvas, 57.5 by 44 cm. (Museum Ludwig, Cologne; photograph Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne).
Attributed works:
17. Painterly architectonic, by Liubov Popova. 1918. Oil on canvas, 45 by 53 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid; exh. Museum Ludwig, Cologne).
Exhibition Review
Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí. Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 346-348
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Reviewer:
Clarke, Michael (Clarke, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875 / Dalí, Salvador / Lhermitte, Léon-Augustin / Gogh, Vincent van / Pissarro, Camille / Monet, Claude / Gauguin, Paul / Seurat, Georges / Segantini, Giovanni / Hodler, Ferdinand / Modersohn-Becker, Paula / Munch, Edvard / Malevich, Kazimir / Egger-Lienz, Albin / Rops, Félicien / Toorop, Jan
artists:
Morbilli, Angelo
dates:
2010-2019 / 2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, United States
subjects:
Modern art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dal  Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis 16th February–17th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Archaeological reminiscences of Millet’s Angelus, by Salvador Dalí. c.1934. Oil on panel, 31.8 by 39.4 cm. (Dalí Museum, St Petersburg FL; exh. Saint Louis Art Museum).
Attributed works:
22. In the rice fields, by Angelo Morbilli. 1901. Canvas, 182.9 by 130.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Saint Louis
Book Review
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival. By Maria Taroutina
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 268-269
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Reviewer:
Spira, Andrew (Spira, Andrew)
Subjects
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily / Malevich, Kazimir / Tatlin, Vladimir
subjects:
Russian art / Modernism / Byzantine revival / Icons / Nationalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo- Byzantine Revival By Maria Taroutina. 288 pp. incl. 51 col. + 65 b. & w. ills. (Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park PA, 2018),  79.95. ISBN 978–0–271–08104–5. | :
Article
Vasily Kandinsky and the Formal method
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1016-1023
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Author:
Bowlt, John E. (Bowlt, John E.)
Subjects
art literature:
Punin, Nikolay / Tarabukin, Nikolay
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily / Popova, Liubov / Rodchenko, Aleksander / Stepanova, Varvara / Malevich, Kazimir / Tatlin, Vladimir / Gan, Aleksey / Burlyuk, David / Kulbin, Nikolay
dates:
1900-1949 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences), Moscow, Russia
places:
Russia
subjects:
Russian painting / Russian School / Russian Revolution, Russia / Communism / Marxism / Formalism / Formal analysis / Art theory / Criticism / Art criticism / Art critics / Artists' writings / Literature / Language / Music / Mysticism / Occultism / Spirituality / Science / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Colour / Constructivist / Abstract art / Aesthetics / Taste (aesthetics) / Perception / Study and teaching / Engineering
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Elementary life of the primary colour and its dependence on the simplest locale, by Vasily Kandinsky. Illustration to the lecture ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ delivered by Nikolai Kul’bin on Kandinsky’s behalf at the All-Russian Congress of Artists, St Petersburg, 29th and 31st December 1911. Published in Russian in I. Repin et al.: Trudy Vserossiiskogo s’ezda khudozhnikov (Transactions of the All-Russian Congress of artists), Petrograd 1914, I, pp.76–77.
Attributed works:
2. Improvisation 10, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1910. Canvas, 120 by 140 cm. (Fondation Beyeler, Basel; photograph courtesy Peter Schibli).
Attributed works:
3. Tsikl lektsii (Cycle of lectures), by Nikolay Punin. Petrograd 1920. Cover designed by Kazimir Malevich. (Photograph courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Black lines, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1913. 129.4 by 131.1 cm. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Painting with the red spot, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1914. Canvas, 130 by 130 cm. (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Members of RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences) in the building of Svomas (Free State Art Studios), Moscow, June 1921. From left to right: Robert Fal’k, Evsei Shor, Nikolai Uspensky, Vasily Kandinsky, Evgenii Pavlov and Aleksandr Shenshin. Reproduced in C. Derouet and J. Boissel, eds.: exh. cat. Œuvres de Vassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou) 1984, p.156.
Book Review
Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art. By Nancy Perloff & Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War. By Erika Wolf & Communist Posters. Edited by Mary Ginsberg
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 260-261
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Reviewer:
Collier, Marie (Collier, Marie)
Subjects
artists:
Malevich, Kazimir / Larionov, Mikhail / Goncharova, Natalia
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Books / Illustrations / Posters / Photomontages
places:
Russia / China / Korea / Vietnam / Cuba / Mongolia
subjects:
Futurism / Communism / Capitalism / Cold War / World War (1939-1945)
Exhibition Review
Monochrome. London
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 146-147
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Reviewer:
Stahlbuhk, Katharine (Stahlbuhk, Katharine)
Subjects
artists:
Albers, Josef / Dürer, Albrecht / Eliasson, Olafur / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Malevich, Kazimir / Memling, Hans
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
places:
Great Britain / London / Germany / Düsseldorf
subjects:
Monochrome
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Head of a woman, by Albrecht Dürer. 1520. Black and grey bodycolour heightened with white on paper, 32.4 by 22.8 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
8. St Christopher carrying the Infant Christ and St Anthony Abbot, from the Donne triptych, by Hans Memling. c.1478. Panel, each 71 by 30.5 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
9. Helga Matura with her fiancé, by Gerhard Richter. 1966. Canvas, 200 by 100 cm. (Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; © Gerhard Richter 2017; exh. National Gallery, London).
Book Review
Malevich Writes: A Theory of Creativity. Cubism to Suprematism, by P. Railing
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 373
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Reviewer:
Lodder, Christina (Lodder, Christina; L., C.; Lodder, Christina A.)
Subjects
artists:
Malevich, Kazimir
dates:
1910-1919 / 1920-1929
subjects:
Russian painting / Artists' writings / Abstract art / Avant-garde / Russian / Art theory / Suprematist
Exhibition Review
In Search of 0,10 – The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 061–062
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Reviewer:
Lodder, Christina (Lodder, Christina; L., C.; Lodder, Christina A.)
Subjects
artists:
Malevich, Kazimir / Tatlin, Vladimir
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
places:
Switzerland / Riehen / Basel
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Futurism / Avant-garde / Russian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
80. Travelling woman, by Lyubov Popova. 1915 (State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Costakis Collection; exh. Fondation Beyeler, Basel)
Attributed works:
81. Suprematism: non-objective composition, by Kazimir Malevich. 1915 (Ekaterinburgh Museum of Fine Arts; exh. Fondation Beyeler, Basel)
Attributed works:
82. Corner counter-relief, by Vladimir Tatlin. 1925 reconstruction by the artist of the 1915 original (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg; exh. Fondation Beyeler, Basel)
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