Kazimir Malevich, “Self-Portrait,” 1910–1911 (Photo: Tretyakov Gallery viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain) Russian artistKazimir Malevichhoned his painting skills in numerous styles, but ultimately became best known for his Suprematist abstract art, which relied on geometric shapes.Black Squareis ...
Artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were shaking things up, proposing that art didn’t have to imitate life to convey meaning. They believed that art could speak to the soul, evoke emotions and spark thoughts without relying on recognisable imagery. This movement wasn’t just ...
abstract art is such an entrenched part of mainstream culture that it's hard to imagine a time when people wouldn't paint anything that wasn't representing a person, or an object, or a landscape in the real world. It wasn't done, because it didn't occur to anyone to do it. ...
Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian are considered to be the first artists to have achieved a truly abstract visual language in painting. By the early to mid-1910's, they had created compositions that ceased to function as reflections of reality. Although they worked independentl...
The article previews the art exhibition "Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015," which will feature works by various artists including Carl Andre, Andrea Zittel and Kazimir Malevich, to be held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, England, from January 15th through...
Kazimir Malevich, andVladimir Tatlinturned to fundamentally abstract art. (Kandinsky was traditionally regarded as having been the first modern artist to paint purely abstract pictures containing no recognizable objects, in 1910–11. That narrative, however, was later questioned, especially in the 21st...
Suprematism, first movement of pure geometrical abstraction in painting, originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia in about 1913. In his first Suprematist work, a pencil drawing of a black square on a white field, all the elements of objective representat