Kazimir Malevich
Overview
Poles
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parents. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art
Geometric abstract art
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and the originator of the Avant-garde
Avant-garde
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Suprematist
Suprematism
Suprematism was an art movement focused on fundamental geometric forms which formed in Russia in 1915-1916. It was not until later that suprematism received conventional museum preparations...
movement.
Kazimir Malevich was born near Kiev
Kiev
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in the Kiev Governorate
Kiev Governorate
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of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
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(today Ukraine
Ukraine
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).
Unanswered Questions
Quotations
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. The first step of pure creation in art.
"From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting" (November 1916)
By "Suprematism" I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.
The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism (1926), trans. Howard Dearstyne [Dover, 2003, ISBN 0-486-42974-1], part II: Suprematism (p. 67)
I have not invented anything, only the night I have sensed, and in it the new which I called Suprematism.
Quoted in Walter Hess, Dokumente zum Verständnis der modernen Malerei (Hamburg, 1956), p. 98