Category: Artists

The Supremacy of Feeling: Kazimir Malevich and the Gestation of a New Art

.Reading time 9 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti “By ‘Suprematism’ I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. For the Suprematist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; what matters is feeling. Art no longer concerns itself with serving the State and religion; it no longer seeks to illustrate the history of manners; it […]

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Finnish Art: The Brothers von Wright in between Art and Science

.Reading time 9 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti ‘Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary’ Blaise Pascal Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright are key figures in the history of science and culture in 19th-century Finland and Sweden, and are deeply rooted in the Finnish national imagination. They are sometimes considered the same person, although […]

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