Red Square (painting)

Red Square
Artist Kazimir Malevich
Year 1915 (1915)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 53 by 53 centimetres (21 in × 21 in)
Location Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions,[1] [2] more commonly known as Red Square,[3] is a 1915 painting by Kazimir Malevich.[4]

The painting is of a red quadrilateral on a white field.[3] According to New York Times art critic Grace Gluek, the "Peasant Woman" of the title of the work is represented in the color red of traditional Russian religious icon paintings.[1]

Red Square is currently in the collection of the Russian Museum.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Grace Gluek (9 May 2003). "ART REVIEW; Mother Russia Nurtured Her Modern Rebels, Too". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Bundeskunsthalle - Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-garde, 8 March to 22 June 2014". Bundeskunsthalle. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 Laura Cumming (27 January 2008). "Heroes of the Russian revelation - French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg". The Observer. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  4. ↑ Richard Kostelanetz and H. R. Brittain (2001). A Dictionary of the Avant-gardes. Taylor & Francis. p. 389. ISBN 0415937647.
  5. ↑ "The Viewing of Six New Works 2012". Art Canada Institute. University of Toronto. 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
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