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Surrealism and Objects: Expanding the Idea of Reality

Surrealism and Objects: Expanding the Idea of Reality

Dawn Adès

What are these things if they no longer have the function that we associate with them?

Surrealism and Objects: Expanding the Idea of Reality

Dawn Adès

What are these things if they no longer have the function that we associate with them?

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Four-minute films which shed light on the key movements and technical language of art history.

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CRUISING CULTURE - 5 films selected by artist Brian Clarke for our 2nd anniversary

The Revolution of the Black Square

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The Revolution of the Black Square

Iwona Blazwick

Brian Clarke

Artist

Black Square, 1915. Kazimir Malevich's small masterpiece is one of the most shocking and influential paintings in the history of art. What does it mean and what impact has it had around the world? Iwona Blazwick begins the story in the dramatic turbulence of early 1900s Tsarist Russia, where a group of young artists began to rethink the possibilities of art and overturned traditional ideas of representation. The art movements they founded -- Constructivism and Suprematism -- focused on pure colour, shape and line, and reflected a world undergoing social and political revolution. Blazwick follows the trail from western Europe to 1950s Latin America and beyond, looking at how Kazimir Malevich's deceptively simple Black Square reverberated amongst artists in various countries throughout the following decades, creating a universal language that continues to shape art to this day. This film is part of Brian Clarke's curated series, 'Cruising Culture'. He described the film as follows: "This film contextualises Malevich and Constructivism in a very convincing way, historically: it places it politically and culturally and anthropologically just where it was. It's not just an atavistic event which came up like a mushroom; you see where Constructivism came from. And it's structured really well, the thinking is solid and provocative. And it’s interesting to see this in relation to HENI Talks' film on Zaha Hadid and the influence of Suprematism on her."

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