Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ; ; ; ; .|group=nb}} ( – 15 May 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century. He was born in Kiev, modern-day Ukraine, to an ethnic Polish family. His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access "the supremacy of pure feeling" and spirituality. Active primarily in Russia, Malevich was a founder of the artists collective UNOVIS and his work has been variously associated with the Russian avant-garde and the Ukrainian avant-garde, and he was a central figure in the history of modern art in Central and Eastern Europe more broadly.Early on, Malevich worked in a variety of styles, quickly assimilating the movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism and, after visiting Paris in 1912, Cubism. Gradually simplifying his style, he developed an approach with key works consisting of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds. His ''Black Square'' (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew "an uncrossable line (…) between old art and new art"; ''Suprematist Composition: White on White'' (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take his ideal of pure abstraction to its logical conclusion. In addition to his paintings, Malevich laid down his theories in writing, such as "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism" (1915) and ''The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism'' (1926).
Malevich's trajectory in many ways mirrored the tumult of the decades surrounding the October Revolution in 1917. In its immediate aftermath, vanguard movements such as Suprematism and Vladimir Tatlin's Constructivism were encouraged by Trotskyite factions in the government. Malevich held several prominent teaching positions and received a solo show at the Sixteenth State Exhibition in Moscow in 1919. His recognition spread to the West with solo exhibitions in Warsaw and Berlin in 1927. From 1928 to 1930, he taught at the Kiev Art Institute, with Alexander Bogomazov, Victor Palmov, Vladimir Tatlin and published his articles in a Kharkiv magazine ''Nova Generatsiia'' (New generation). But the start of repression in Ukraine against the intelligentsia forced Malevich return to Leningrad (Saint Petersburg). From the beginning of the 1930s, modern art was falling out of favor with the new government of Joseph Stalin. Malevich soon lost his teaching position, artworks and manuscripts were confiscated, and he was banned from making art. In 1930, he was imprisoned for two months due to suspicions raised by his trip to Poland and Germany. Forced to abandon abstraction, he painted in a representational style in the years before his death from cancer in 1935, at the age of 56.
His art and his writings influenced contemporaries such as El Lissitzky, Lyubov Popova and Alexander Rodchenko, as well as generations of later abstract artists, such as Ad Reinhardt and the Minimalists. He was celebrated posthumously in major exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art (1936), the Guggenheim Museum (1973) and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1989), which has a large collection of his work. In the 1990s, the ownership claims of museums to many Malevich works began to be disputed by his heirs. Provided by Wikipedia
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Essays on art. / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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The non-objective world / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Écrits / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Chernyĭ kvadrat / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Malevich : the graphic work, 1913-1930 : a print catalogue raisonné / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Kasimir Malewitsch zum 100 [i.e. hundertsten] Geburtstag : Ausstellung Juni-Juli 1978, Galerie Gmurzynska, Köln / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Suprematism, 34 drawings / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Malevich / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 : [exhibition], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 16 September 1990-4 November 1990, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los A... by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 : works from State Russian Museum, Leningrad ... / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Malevich : artist and theoretician / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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The non-objective world / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Sobranie sochinenii v p︠i︡ati tomakh / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Malevich writes : a theory of creativity : Cubism to Suprematism / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Kazimir Malevich : letters, documents, memoirs, criticism / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Chernyĭ kvadrat / by Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
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Malevich. : Catalogue raisonne of the Berlin exhibition 1927, including the collection in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; with a general introd. to his work. by Andersen, Troels
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Kasimir Malevich / by Nakov, Andrei B.
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Malevich : painting the absolute / by Nakov, Andrei B.
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Kazimir Malevich / by Douglas, Charlotte, 1936-
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