2nd Interior

Having gone beyond total abstraction and pushed the boundaries of aniconic art, in the second half of the 1920s Ivan Kliun created an Interior that strongly recalls the hermetically "closed" paintings of De Chirico, Picasso and Braque. He has used the form of the cylinder and the sphere to create the interior of a room. The space does not breathe, light does not enter from anywhere and any source of illumination is missing. This is a figurative work, which is in direct opposition to the principles of the aniconic art of Suprematism.