'Cosmos' (1925) by Ilya Chashnik instagram.com/p/CRf9fKPDRP5/
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It is an abstract composition, one of the peaks of Suprematist art, however, it distinctly evokes a vision of spaceships, of interplanetary travels and space exploration...
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So we may say that the true inspirer of Soviet space programme was Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich, of whom Ilya 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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Ilya Chashnik was born into a Jewish family in 1902, in Lucyn, Russian Empire, and died young in 1929, in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
So, he, too, belongs to the 27 Club ...
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For Malevitch, Suprematism is 'the primacy of pure feeling in creative art [...] feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.'
Three more Suprematist works by Ilya Chashnik
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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]