Ilya Chashnik
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Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik (1902, Lucyn, Russian Empire
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, currently Ludza
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, Latvia
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 - 1929, Leningrad
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) was a suprematist
Suprematism
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 artist, a pupil of Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a Russian painter and art theoretician, born of ethnic Polish parents. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the Avant-garde Suprematist movement.-Early life:...

 and a founding member of the UNOVIS
UNOVIS
UNOVIS was a short-lived but influential group of Russian artists, founded and led by Kazimir Malevich at the Vitebsk Art School in 1919....

 school.

Chashnik was notably able in a variety of media. Aleksandra Semenovna Shatskikh describes him as "famous for his inexhaustible inventiveness and ability to apply Suprematist principles to virtually all forms of art, including easel painting." He painted, was proficient in metalwork, and designed ceramics produced at the Imperial Porcelain Factory
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 (then known as the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory).

The University of Texas at Austin
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held an exhibition dedicated to his works in 1981.

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Literature

  • Чашник Илья Григорьевич (1902-1929), ленинградский художник, ученик К. Малевича. Первая монография о мастере. (publ. 2002), ISBN 5851640774
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