Black Cross (painting) explained

Black Cross
Artist:	Kazimir Malevich
Year:	1915–1924
Medium:	Oil on linen
Height Metric:	79
Width Metric:	79
Metric Unit:	cm
Museum:	Musée National d'Art Moderne
City:	Paris

Black Cross (also known as The Black Cross) is an iconic oil painting by Kazimir Malevich. The first version was done in 1915. From the mid-1910s, Malevich abandoned any trace of figurature or representation from his paintings in favour of pure abstraction.^{[1] [2]}

History

Black Cross was first shown in The Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in 1915.^[3] One of the parts of Kazimir Malevich’s triptych (Black Square, Black Cross, Black Circle).

Bibliography

• Gray, Camilla. The Great Experiment: Russian Art, 1863–1922. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962
• Farthing, Stephen. 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. Cassel Illustrated, 2011.
• Néret, Gilles. Kazimir Malevich 1878–1935 and Suprematism. Taschen, 2003.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mazzoni. Ira. Everything and Nearly Nothing: Malevich and His Effects. DeutscheBank/Art. 15 May 2015. 22 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160522161204/http://db-artmag.com/archiv/07/e/thema-mazzoni.html. dead.
2. Schjehldahl. Peter. The Prophet: Malevich's Revolution. The New Yorker. 26 May 2003 . 15 May 2015.
3. Schjehldahl. Peter. The Shape of Things:After Kazimir Malevich . The New Yorker. 7 March 2011 . 15 May 2015.