Composition II, Pink and Blue - Sándor Bortnyik

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Título:: Self-portrait
Fecha:: 1903

Técnica:: Oil on canvas
Medidas:: 41 x 33 cm.
Ubicacion:: Tate: gift of Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son, 1931.

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Título:: The Annunciation Diptych: The Archangel Gabriel (detail)
Fecha:: c. 1433-1435

Técnica: Oil on panel: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Nº INV. 137.a (1933.11.1)

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Autor:: Sándor Bortnyik
Título:: Composition II, Pink and Blue
Fecha:: ca. 1921

Técnica:: Gouache on paper
Medidas:: 28 x 21 cm
Úbicacion:: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Numero de inventario: INV. Nr. 475 (1981.15)

Composition II, Pink and Blue, Sándor Bortnyik

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Like Moholy-Nagy, the Hungarian artist Sándor Bortnyik was a member of the avant-garde group connected with the magazine MA, which was published initially in Budapest and later in Vienna by Lajos Kassák . After being forced into exile, Bortnyik began to admire Malévich’s Suprematism through the interpretations of El Lissitzky , whom he had met in Berlin in the early 1920sWhen. he moved to Weimar in 1922 and came into contact with the Bauhaus, the Constructivist environment of the school prompted his permanent shift from synthetic Cubism to geometric abstraction.

Composition II , Pink and Blue, an architecture in painting that bears the mark of El Lissitzky’s Prouns, is related to an album of six abstract prints published by the magazine MA in Vienna in 1920, in which Bortnyik’s language had already veered towards a constructive abstraction verging on Machinism . But furthermore, as John Bowlt and Nicoletta Misler state, by juxtaposing diagonals and verticals, circles and quadrilaterals , Bortnyik appears to devise a vocabulary similar to that addressed by Malevich in his illustrated book Suprematism . 34 Drawings, published in 1920.

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