Russian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879–1935)
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.
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 Stal…
Sourced, dated quotes from Kazimir Malevich
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.
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.
I possess only a single bare, frame-less icon [his Squares ] of our times (like a pocket), and it is difficult to struggle.
At the present time man's path lies through space, and Suprematism is a colour metaphor in its infinite abyss. [1916]
..[to gather] under a new banner.. ..[that the poets of yesterday's Futurism ] change the means of battle with thought, content, and logic.. ..advance Alogism after Futurism.
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