>“It is just as well Malevich is dead. He would be skinned alive for his Black Square.” Well yes, given that Suprematism was more or less openly Trotskyist. I'

>“It is just as well Malevich is dead. He would be skinned alive for his Black Square.” Well yes, given that Suprematism was more or less openly Trotskyist. I'm kind of surprised the article doesn't mention that at all (i.e as the thing that "killed" Russian avant garde of the time).