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1 Rouble Fine Art. Avant-garde. UNOVIS
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a highly stylized modernist composition rendered in pad-printing technique, dominated by concentric circular graphic elements evoking the aesthetic vocabulary of Russian avant-garde art. At the center, a QR code is prominently displayed within a geometric target-like design. Radiating from the center, the names of notable UNOVIS-associated artists and cities are inscribed in Cyrillic lettering across the field, including ВІЦЕБСК and ЛІПЕЦК as well as individual names such as МАЛЕВІЧ, ЕРМАЛАЕВА, КАШНІК, КАГАН, and others. The upper arc bears the legend РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ, flanked by the state emblem of Belarus, while the lower arc carries the date 1920 2020 and the denomination 1 РУБЕЛЬ. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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UNOVIS — "Champions of the New Art" — was the collective founded by Kazimir Malevich at the Vitebsk People's Art School in 1919, shortly after El Lissitzky persuaded him to relocate there from Petrograd. The group lasted barely three years before internal pressures and Malevich's departure effectively dissolved it, making its productive period one of the most compressed and consequential in the history of constructivist theory. Belarus has periodically claimed this Vitebsk chapter as part of its cultural patrimony, which is the political logic driving this issue.
Pad printing on cupro-nickel — a process more associated with industrial marking than coin production — was chosen here to replicate the flat geometric color fields the movement favored.