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Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

El Lissitzky, 1919

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Two shapes, three colors, one civil war. In 1919 El Lissitzky reduced the Russian conflict to its skeleton: a red triangle stabbing a white circle.

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