Red Square (painting)

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

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

The painting is of a red parallelogram 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.