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In Honour of El Lissitzki or U čast El Lissitzkom is a painting by Croatian painter, sculptor, and graphic designer Ivan Picelj.[1] It is one of the crucial paintings from the EXAT 51 group, a group of Croatian artists and sculptors created to protest the official Socialist Realism art movement. [2] Along with Composition (1951) the painting is considered to be one of his major geometrical abstractions [3]and a prototypical example of the geometric abstraction art style.[4]

The work consists of black and gray geometric abstracts on a white background with blue abstract borders on the bottom and left side. The material is oil on canvas. The style of the work is Constructivist. The size of the work is 38 in. X 38 in. (96.3 x 96.3 cm). The work was created in 1956.[5]

The painting is in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia. [6]

Critical reception

Croatian art history critics consider Picelj's work, from his early abstracts to his later built reliefs, to stem from the general principles of constructivism. Art history professor Renata Gotthardi Škiljan [7] considered it to represent constructivist order: a ritual of order, measurement, and harmony ("svečanost je to reda, mjere i sklada"). Art museum curator Želimir Koščević[8] called it a rational analysis of the tone register of primary colors ("racionalnom analizom tonskog registra osnovnih boja") and apersonal geometric abstraction ("apersonalan smjer geometrijske apstrakcije"). [9]

See also

• Media related to Category:Geometric abstraction at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Category:Geometric abstract paintings at Wikimedia Commons

Note: there is an article about this painting at Bulgarian Wikipedia The Wikidata item for this topic is here.