Year 1912-13 Created 1912 Period Cubo-Futurism Support Canvas | Genre History painting | |
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Dimensions 79.534 cm × 79.534 cm (31.3125 in × 31.3125 in) Similar An Englishman in Moscow, Cow and Fiddle, Head of a Peasant Girl, Woodcutter, Red Square | ||
The Knifegrinder Principle of Glittering (Russian: Точильщик, Tochil'schik Printsip Mel'kaniia), or sometimes shortened to The Knifegrinder, is a 1912-13 cubo-futurist painting by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich. It contains both the fragmententation of form associated with futurism as well as abstract geometry related to cubism. As of 2014 it is owned by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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