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to the attention of the visitors a series
of articles by Andrei DIATCHENKO
about the foremen
of silhouette art.
L. Rudenko

FROM BLACK SILHOUETTES - TO RED ONES
( to Kazimir Malevich's 125-th anniversary )

      The Malevich exhibition which took place in StPetersburg in 2000 demonstrated that the discussion around the name of this outstanding artist is going on. And this discussion is not going to finish soon. The variety of opinions on the art of Malevich, contradictory evaluations of his work and enormous inerest to his personality and his art in the whole world give reasons to serious discussion on his influence upon silhouette art...

     ... It should not be forgotten that young Malevich passed through the period of Synbolism and ARt nouveau art. In his youth he was an ardent admirer of the works of Aubrey Beardsley and created a number of interesting graphic works, which bear witness to the influence of Art nouveau silhouette art.It refers to the painting "The Wedding" and to white-and-green compositions devoted to pleasures of summertime ("The Children"). The treatment of relationship "the object and the background" as of a certain structure full of contrast also makes the works of Malevich closer to the silhouette graphics of the turn of the XX century...

      ...The world of suprematist structures of Malevich constitutes a set of heretofore unknown symbols of polymeric Space, endlessly stretching in all directions.
And therefore the occurrence of sillhouettes in the work of Malevich is no surprize; they should necessarily be there.
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