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
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.
white squares feelings
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.
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!
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.
real surface form
A painted surface is a real, living form.
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.
mean expression ideas
For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.
lying color sea
I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.
creative zoologist anecdotes
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
real eye alive
Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.