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Two squares: a Suprematist tale in six designs

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El Lissitzky

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Mediums: cardboard, watercolour, pencil.
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

The Suprematist picture cannot be attributed to abstraction in the full sense of the term. The author commented on his plan with the inscription, “They fly to the earth from afar”. Moreover, the planet looks already different – the constructivist structures that the artist portrayed on it are probably huge, given their scale in relation to the globe. In part, that is why the title has the word “fairy tale”. The artist painted the aliens abstractly – red and black squares (a popular form of the Suprematists) move in a conditional space race.