Untitled
1920
watercolor
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1920
watercolor
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
This painting shows a big red circle with a small, simple building drawn on top. Above the circle, two tilted squares—one red, one black—float in the corner. The background is a plain, light color, and there’s some handwritten text in a foreign script along the bottom. The text roughly translates to *"fly high above the earth from afar."* It’s like the painting is about looking down from a great height. Check out El Lissitzky to see how he mixed art and ideas.