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Kazimir Malevich

Russian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879-1935) · Russia · Artists · Died at 56

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He painted a black square on a white canvas in 1915 and called it the future. Kazimir Malevich broke painting down to pure geometry - no objects, no illusions, just form freed from the world - and built Suprematism into one of the most uncompromising ideas modern art ever produced.

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1935Died15 May 19351916“I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.”In their wordsNovember 1916November 1916, in: 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting'

“I possess only a single bare, frame-less icon [his Squares ] of our times (like a pocket), and it is difficult to struggle.”In their wordsMay 1916'Letter from K. Malevich to art-critic Aleksandr Benois', May 1916; by Jane A, Sharp, in Chapter 'The Critical Reception of the 0. 10

“The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant.”In their wordsNovember 1916'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting', Kazimir Malevich, November 1916

1915“Dynamism is also the forming formula for Futurists works; i.e.”In their wordsc. 1915 in 'Cubofuturism', Malevich, in his Essays on Art, op. cit., vol 2; as quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou

“There is movement and movement.”In their wordsc. 1915, in: 'Cubofuturism', Malevich, in his Essays on Art, op. cit., vol 2; as quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre

1913“We have rejected reason because we have found another reason that could be called trans-rational, which has its own law, construction, and sense..”In their wordsJune 1913letter to the composer Matiushin, June 1913; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan,

1879Born11 February 1879

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  1. I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

    Nov 1916, November 1916, in: 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting', Own words

  2. I possess only a single bare, frame-less icon [his Squares ] of our times (like a pocket), and it is difficult to struggle.

    May 1916, 'Letter from K. Malevich to art-critic Aleksandr Benois', May 1916; by Jane A, Sharp, in Chapter 'The Critical Reception of the 0. 10, Own words

  3. At the present time man's path lies through space, and Suprematism is a colour metaphor in its infinite abyss. [1916]

    1916, 'On space and Suprematism', Kasimir Malevich, 1916; as cited in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, London 1990, p. 58, Own words

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About this person

Born in Kiev in 1879 to a Polish family, Malevich absorbed Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism through reproductions and Russian collectors before finding his own path. In 1915, working in a Cubo-Futurist mode, he developed Suprematism: pure geometric abstraction on monochromatic grounds. His Black Square, shown at the Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in Petrograd that year, marked the break. He taught in Vitebsk from 1918, founded the UNOVIS collective in 1919, and in 1927 took his work to Warsaw and Berlin - the only time he left Russia. By 1930, arrested briefly by the OGPU and squeezed by Stalin's cultural clampdown, he returned to figuration under the weight of Socialist Realism. Diagnosed with cancer in 1933 and denied exit for treatment, he kept painting until his death in 1935 at fifty-six.

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deceased
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Lived 1879 to 1935 · aged 56

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