About The Artist:
Kazimir Malevich
Born near Kiev in 1878, Malevich trained at Kiev School of Art and Moscow Academy of Fine Arts where he began working in an unexceptional Post-Impressionist manner. But by 1912 he was painting peasant subjects in a massive `tubular' style similar to that of Léger as well as pictures combining the fragmentation of form of Cubism with the multiplication of the image of Futurism. Malevich, however, was fueled with the desire `to free art...
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About The Medium:
Lithograph
A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.