Today's lecture discussed Russian artist Kasimir Malevich and his pioneering Suprematist works from 1913-1932 which reduced forms to basic geometric shapes and explored non-objective abstraction. It also covered several other early 20th century European artists who experimented with abstraction, minimalism, and new aesthetic philosophies including Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Vladimir Tatlin, Naum Gabo, and German artists Otto Dix and George Grosz.

1. ART 315 LECTURE 6

2. Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism, c. 1917

3. Kasimir Malevich, Black Square, 1913

4. Kasimir Malevich,White on White, 1919

5. Kasimir Malevich, Peasant (with Black
Face), c. 1928-32

6. El Lissitzky, Proun 19D, c. 1922

7. Piet Mondrian, Gray Tree, 1912

8. PIet Mondrian, Composition No. 6, 1914

9. Piet Mondrian, Composition No. II. 1929

10. Theo van Doesburg, Simultaneous Counter-Composition,
c. 1929/30

11. Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: Ritardando, 1958

12. Oscar Schlemmer, Bauhaus Stairway, 1932

13. VladimirTatlin, Model for the Monument
to the Third International, 1919

14. El Lissitszky, Proun-Room for the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, 1923

15. Naum Gabo, Column, 1923

16. Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia
von Harden, 1926

17. George Grosz, The Pillars of Society, 1926

18. Max Beckmann, The Night, 1918/19