Painterly Realism of a Football Player - Color Masses in the 4th Dimension
1915 Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
This oil on canvas composition is a seminal work of Suprematism, featuring geometric shapes suspended against a white background to represent a football player. It is currently part of the collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Despite its title, the painting represents a football player entirely through non-objective, geometric forms rather than recognizable human anatomy. Malevich believed that these floating 'color masses' could transcend earthly reality and access the 'fourth dimension' of pure feeling, stripping away the clutter of traditional representational art.
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Painterly Realism of a Football Player - Color Masses in the 4th Dimension
Kazimir Malevich, 1915
