Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevichwas a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth23 February 1879
CityKiev, Ukraine
CountryPoland
giving faces surface
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.
blue color shade
I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.
photography mean color
I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)
artist squares trying
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.
independent feelings essentials
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.
zero painting creation
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.
creative zoologist anecdotes
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
painting consciousness shameless
Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.
lying taken ideas
I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?
art squares faces
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.
art elements crafts
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element...
goal sides painting
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
color white blue
I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.
art mean creative
By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.