'Cosmos' (1925) by Ilya Chashnik is an abstract composition, one of the peaks of Suprematist art...
At the same time, however, it distinctly evokes a vision of spaceships, of interplanetary travels and space exploration instagram.com/p/CCa4VHCD8_t/
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In that sense, we may say that the true inspirer of Soviet space programme was Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich, of whom Chashnik was the brightest pupil...
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This is Kazimir Malevich's 'Houses of the Future Leningrad: Pilot's House' (1924)
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Unfortunately, Ilya Chashnik, born to a Jewish family in 1902, in Lucyn, Russian Empire, died very young in 1929, in Leningrad, Soviet Union. And so, he, too, belongs to the so-called 27 Club....
Here are some of his Suprematist compositions
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'Under Suprematism I understand the primacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.'
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'The so called “materialization” of a feeling in the conscious mind really means a materialization of the reflection of that feeling through the medium of some realistic conception. Such a realistic conception is without value in Suprematist art...
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And not only in Suprematist art but in art generally, because the enduring, true value of a work of art (to whatever school it may belong) resides solely in the feeling expressed.'
From Kazimir Malevitch's 'The Non-Objective World' [Bauhausbuch No. 11. Munich: Langen, 1927]
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Chashnik's cross in circles (1926)
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