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Senior curator Roxana Marcoci walks through the exhibition A Revolutionary Impulse: Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, in our latest episode of "How to see the Russian Avant-Garde." Watch the full episode at mo.ma/howtosee. 

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“Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.”

Kazimir Malevich was born on this day in 1878. As the founder of Suprematism, Malevich rejected figurative representation and pioneered pure abstraction. The revolutionary artist considered his planes of color on white backgrounds a form of realism as they used the most basic elements of visual vocabulary.

Malevich’s Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying is on view in A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde through March 12.

[Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying. 1915. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquisition confirmed in 1999 by agreement with the Estate of Kazimir Malevich and made possible with funds from the Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest (by exchange)]

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Senior curator Roxana Marcoci discusses the Russian painter Lyubov Popova, whose work is part of A Revolutionary Impulse: Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, in our latest episode of "How to see the Russian Avant-Garde."

Watch the full episode at mo.ma/howtosee

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Senior curator Roxana Marcoci discusses how the Russian avant-garde influenced the history of MoMA when Alfred Barr, the Museum’s first director, traveled to Russia a year before MoMA opened in 1929. 

A Revolutionary Impulse: Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde closes this Sunday, March 12. Learn more about the exhibition in our latest video, "How to see the Russian Avant-Garde.”

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Art and social change intersected during the Russian Revolution. Walk through A Revolutionary Impulse: Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde with curator Sarah Suzuki and see how five works highlight abstract art’s political potential.

View the full video on our YouTube channel at mo.ma/howtosee1.

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Still thinking about that Ka from Olga Rozanova's prints @themuseumofmodernart #revolutionaryimpulse exhibit. Such beautiful crude #Cyrillic #letterforms #inspiration (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

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“Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.”...#KazimirMalevich was born on this day in 1878. As the founder of #Suprematism, Malevich rejected figurative representation and pioneered pure abstraction. The revolutionary artist considered his planes of color on white backgrounds a form of realism as they used the most basic elements of visual vocabulary....Malevich’s “Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying” is on view in “A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde” through March 12. #RevolutionaryImpulse #MoMACollection...[Kazimir Malevich. “Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying.” 1915. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquisition confirmed in 1999 by agreement with the Estate of Kazimir Malevich and made possible with funds from the Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest (by exchange)] .

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credit: @themuseumofmodernart

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Plan your perfect holiday break with thought-provoking, restorative, and inspiring art in our galleries. See Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, which New York Magazine called "a blast of fresh air," and A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, proclaimed "a sparkling exhibition" by The New York Times, and more. Visit mo.ma/exhibitions to learn more.