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
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.
art needs sincerity
In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.
art objectivity squares
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling...
white squares feelings
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.
essence color painting
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.
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.
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!
men skulls infinity
Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.
art needs dull
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.