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Konstantin Rozhdestvensky - Suprematist Landscape (Cosmic Apparatus) - 1935

Mies van der Rohe - Glass Skyscraper Project - Elevation study - 1922

Herbert Bayer - Segesta - 1924

Solely on its own terms

“It has been in search of the absolute that the avant-garde has arrived at “abstract” or “non-objective” art-and poetry, too. The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms in the way nature itself is valid, in the way a landscape-not its picture-is aesthetically valid; something given, increate, independent of meanings, similars, or originals. Content is to be dissolved so completely into form that the work of art or literature cannot be reduced in whole or in part to anything not itself.”
Clement Greenberg, Avant-garde and Kitsch, 1939. Partisan review p. 36.

Luigi Russolo - L'uomo morente - 1941

Kasimir Malevich - The Shroud of Christ - 1908

Paul Gauguin - The Loss of Virginity - 1890

Heart of Stone

"His heart is like ice, he feels no pain

... For the creatures downtrodden by destiny...

The tears of those unfortunates thrown in the bustle

His heart of stone knows no warmth."

Nella in Alexander Bogdanov, Engineer Menni. A Martian Stranded on Earth, 1913

Lazar Khidekel - Black suprematism circular - ?

Alexander Rodchenko - Logo design for Dobrolet - 1923

Mária Balážová - Serpent Geometry 2 - 1994

Life becomes fascinated

"Art begins with abstract decoration, with purely imaginative and pleasurable work dealing with what is unreal and non-existent. This is the first stage. Then Life becomes fascinated with this new wonder"

Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying, 1891

Arno Auer - Newspaper cut-ups - 2011

Ilya Bolotowsky - Untitled - 1950

Nikolai Suetin - Dynamics in Suprematism - 1921

A World within a World

“You present a quality, architectural, no purpose. Just a recognition of something which you can’t define, but must be built… But that’s a definite architectural quality. It has the same quality as all religious places…It’s the beginning of architecture. It isn’t made out of a handbook. It doesn’t start from practical issues. It starts from a kind of feeling that there must be a world within a world.”
Louis Kahn, Silence and Light, lecture first delivered at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 3, 1968, quoted in James F. Williamson, A World within a World: The Design of a Campus Interfaith Chapel

Jean Nouvel - Monolith - 2001-2002 - Unknown Photographer?

Konstantin Rozhdestvensky - Suprematist Landscape - 1935

Tony Smith - Die - 1962
via RUDY/GODINEZ

The Second Time as Farce

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, 
so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: 
the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Kasimir Malevich - Suprematism (?) - 1915

Blue Noses - Kitchen Suprematism - 2005

Frank O. Gehry - Winton Guest House - 1983 to 1986