12.10: Malevich
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Sal Khan, Steven Zucker, and Beth Harris discuss art and its context using Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich’s Suprematist Composition: White on White to illustrate their points.
The link to this video is provided at the bottom of this page.
Works Discussed
Claude Monet, Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882, oil on canvas, 66.5 cm × 82.3 cm (26 1⁄8 in × 32 7⁄16 in), (Art Institute of Chicago).
Kazmir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918, oil on canvas, 79.4 cm × 79.4 cm (31 1/4 in × 31 1/4 in), (Museum of Modern Art, New York City).
Contributors
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- Art and context: Monet, Cliff Walk at Pourville, and Malevich, White on White. Authored by: Sal Khan, Steven Zucker, and Beth Harris. Provided by: Khan Academy. Located at: www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/beginners-guide-20-21/v/art-context. License: CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike