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
white squares black
Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!
significant-things feelings world
To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.
essence color painting
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.
white squares feelings
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.
goal sides painting
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
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.
creative zoologist anecdotes
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
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)