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Kazimir Malevich

Part 1

Kazimir Malevich started to draw at age 12 and he knew at a young age that he wanted to take on an artistic career and attended many art schools in his youth. He was a Russian painter and art theorist. He founded Suprematism, which is a form of simple geometric shapes with abstract painting. He combined the elements of cubism and futurism to create an abstract geometric approach of figures in space. In his first paintings, he used geometric shapes in a limited range of colors, in black alone, or against a white background. Later on, he introduced a broader range of colors as well as triangles, circles, and curved shapes. Malevich supported the October 1917 Revolution, In the years that followed he worked in political propaganda, painting posters and contributing articles about new art to the “Anarkkhia” (Anarchy) newspaper. Malevich was very interested in the spiritual movement and in expressing a spiritual reality beyond the physical reality through his art. Malevich says, “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.” I like how his work is so simple, yet it still leaves an impact on you and you can tell he put a lot of thought into each piece. One of his works was a relatively small painting filled with a large black square in a white background. He is known especially for this piece in particular. In the museum, it acts like a sudden silence. But when socialist realism was declared the official artistic doctrine of the Soviet Union, this painting and many other works by Malevich were removed and hidden from sight. He died of cancer in 1935 and was buried in a coffin made with his own design, the image of the Black Square placed on its lid. His work became internationally famous and acclaimed, but, under Stalin, his art was thought as being anti-nature, and his works were destroyed.

Part 2

1. He founded a style of art called Suprematism, a geometric style with simple shapes and colors.
2. Malevich supported the October 1917 Revolution, In the years that followed he worked in political propaganda, painting posters and contributing articles about new art to the “Anarkkhia” (Anarchy) newspaper.
3. Suprematism, invented by Kazimir Malevich, was one of the earliest and most radical developments in abstract art. 

Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915

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• Kazimir Malevich, Airplane Flying, 1915
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• Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1916
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• Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism, 1915
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• Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism 2, 1915
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• Kazimir Malevich,
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• Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism (Supremus N58 With Yellow And Black),
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• Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Painting, 1915
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• Kazimir Malevich, Dynamic Suprematism, 1915
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• Kazimir Malevich, Two-Dimensional Self-Portrait, 1917
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• Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Painting: Eight Red Rectangles, 1915
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Kazimir Malevich uses geometric shapes in his work. A variety of rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles all combine to form a relationship with each other. The overlapping of shapes shows movement and depth in his pieces. He uses the shapes in a variety of different ways to create a sense of space within the piece and contrast with the white background. All of the selections above contain lots of shapes and creates a unity with one another. The theme of geometric shapes shows his modern approach to his work.

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