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Kazimir
Malevich

1878 — 1935 · Modern

Early Life, Family and Training Kazimir Malevich was born near Kiev, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire, around 1878 or 1879. He was raised in an ethnic Polish family, the son of Sewryn Antonovich Malevich, who managed a sugar factory. The family moved …

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Kazimir Malevich
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Kazimir Malevich's own colours

Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers