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1.4: Art and context- Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich’s White on White

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    Video \(\PageIndex{1}\): Claude Monet, Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882, oil on canvas, 26-1/8 x 32-7/16 inches (66.5 x 82.3 cm) (Art Institute of Chicago), and Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918, oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 31 1/4″ (79.4 x 79.4 cm) (MoMA)

    Smarthistory images for teaching and learning:

    Malevich, Suprematist Painting
    Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension (detail)
    Malevich, Suprematist Elements: Squares
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    Malevich, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying
    Malevich Wall with Beth
    Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White
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    Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension (detail)
    Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White
    Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension
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    Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White
    Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White
    Malevich Wall
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    Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White
    Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension (detail)
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