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THE ARTIST OF THE MONTH
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This months artist is Kliun Ivan.
You can read his
biography
or you can
from the three movements that inspired him.
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Russian Symbolism
Kliun’s origins in Russian Symbolism are clearly evident in these two works, which demonstrate an affinity with the Lithuanian Mikalojaus Ciurlionis.
Kliun’s own strikingly developed sensibility is comparable to Malevich’s: at this early stage in their friendship the two artists share aesthetic compatibilities that were to become strong during the development of
Suprematism
five years later.
Impressionistic Landscapes
Throught his life, Kliun painted landscapes en plain air, recording the countryside in which he was living. The style of these paintings offers a striking contrast with that major work.Thus in 1914-1915, while creating an advanced
personal idiom in constructions and reliefs, he was also painting landscapes in a Gauguinesque mode.
In addition, there are “Impressionist” and “Neo-Impressionist” landscapes which date from the period of his most mature Suprematist works, while an almost Whistlerian manner emerges in some of the landscapes of 1920 works, combined with those of the late twenties and thirties (clearly indebted to the French) and those which are actual copies from French works, suggest the extend to which Kliun remained interested in (and influenced by) a representational idiom, while producing abstract art of real originality.
