Relief

Mediums: wood, oil, cardboard, zinc.
Location: The Tate Modern Gallery, London (the UK).

Briefly about the painting:

The relief structures created by Ivan Pougny contain the same elements that were used by Suprematists in abstract pictorial compositions. Closely connected with Kazimierz Malewicz (a co-author of the Suprematist Manifesto of 1916), the artist rejected the old forms of the past century and was convinced that the emptiness of the past cannot contain those gigantic constructions and the movement that exists in modern life. In this work, Pougny uses characteristic contrasting colors and combinations of long rectangles with hemispheres, regular squares and irregular triangles that are equally familiar to the style.