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“Markus Mizne was a personal witness to the beginnings of modern art” |
Markus Mizne (1908 – 1994) was born in Kiev and his early influences included his uncle Trympol, a sculptor, painter and museum curator who introduced him to the work of Malevich, Kandinsky, Larianov and Gontcharova. He was a personal witness to the beginnings of Modern art and was part of the move towards abstraction and the spiritual.
Markus Mizne’s abstract art is real for us now. Vital and visible as a documentary of man’s unconquerable spirit, his paintings are an outward expression of an inner desire for individual freedom and a world governed by spiritual power.
Gaze on any Mizne painting and the absence of any familiar imagery or personal identification forces the view either to reject or embrace the unknown and allow the reality in the painting to reveal itself.