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The Knife Grinder (Principle of Glittering)

Точильник

ArtistKazimir Malevich

MovementSuprematism

Year1913

MediumOil on canvas

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven

A Cubo-Futurist painting of a knife grinder in fragmented, repeated geometric planes to convey motion.

The Knife Grinder (Principle of Glittering)

About the Artist

Kazimir Malevich

1879–1935

Founder of Suprematism and a pioneer of geometric abstraction; born in Kyiv and later taught at the Kyiv Art Institute (1928–30).

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Movements

Suprematism

1915–1930s

Radically non-objective geometric abstraction founded by Kazimir Malevich, prioritising pure form and colour over representation; centred on the Black Square (1915). Malevich later taught at the Kyiv Art Institute.

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Cubo-Futurism

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1915

Black Square

1918