“This is the way in which the artist has set about the construction of the world - an activity which affects every human being and carries work beyond the frontiers of comprehension. We see how its creative path took it by way of cubism to pure construction, but there was still no outlet to be found here.”

— El Lissitsky

1915 - 1925, Suprematism' in World Reconstruction (1920)

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Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer… 1890–1941

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