![]() The metallic palette was probably chosen to emphasise the violent manner in which the shavings and knife glitter. The colours blue, green and silver are dominant in the painting other colours used are orange, yellow, brown and crimson. ![]() Behind him on the left are some vases atop shelves and a table and possibly one or two metal pipes, whilst on the right are unclear grey objects (possibly buildings), implying that the person is a professional knife grinder in their workshop a small staircase may also be observed at the bottom right corner. The original cubo futurist painting was painted in 1912-1913. Shavings of metal are suggested by chunks of green around the grinder's face and hands. Inspired by The Knife Grinder Principle of Glittering by Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich. The human is in a constant state of movement the person is either repeatedly inspecting his progress on the knife, and, dismayed by the fact that it is not yet sharp enough, once more starts busily peddling the machine, is simply applying the blade to the machine in a fragmentary way, as though he were a novice, or is only shown carefully putting the blade to the sharpener in slow motion. The painting depicts a moustached man in a suit and hat manually grinding a knife on a knife sharpener, or a grinding wheel. The artwork is typical of Malevich's other paintings, in that the subject matter is of a person generally overlooked by society. In 1941, it was given to the Yale University Art Gallery by the Collection Société Anonyme. Very little documentation of the work exists, but it is known that it was painted circa 1912–1913, during the artist's Cubo-Futurist phase. As of 2014, it is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. This painting combines the pictorial vocabulary of Cubism with the dynamism of Futurism and is usually considered one of the finest examples of Russian. The Knifegrinder or Principle of Glittering ( Russian: Точильщик, Tochil'schik Printsip Mel'kaniia), also called The Knifegrinder (The Glittering Edge) and sometimes shortened to simply The Knifegrinder, is a 1912-13 cubo-futurist painting by the artist Kazimir Malevich, hence the fragmentation of form associated with futurism as well as the abstract geometry related to cubism. ![]() The Knifegrinder or Principle of Glitteringħ9.534 cm × 79.534 cm (31.3125 in × 31.3125 in) 'The Knife Grinder' is a cubo-futurist painting by the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich. Not to be confused with Knife sharpening. ‘The Knife Grinder’ ( Principle of Glittering) by Kazimir Malevich Russian Cubo Futurism, 1913 When Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris in 1913 and exhibited his works in Moscow, the Russian Futurist painters adopted the forms of Cubism and combined them with the Italian Futurists’ representation of movement.
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