Kazimir Severinovich Malevich - an outstanding Russian artist, creator of a new direction in painting - Suprematism - and a theoretician of painting. The most famous work of Malevich is the painting "Black Square", the debate about which has not subsided so far.
Kazimir Malevich - the founder of Suprematism
The future artist was born in 1878 in Kiev in a family of immigrants from Poland. Malevich received his education first at the Kiev drawing school, and then at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In addition, he visited the art studio of F. Rerberg for several years.
The first known mention of the work of Kazimir Malevich is associated with the 14th exhibition of the Moscow Association of Artists in 1907, where 2 sketches of the artist were presented. He also participated in the exhibitions "Jack of Diamonds", the First Moscow Salon, "Union of Youth", "Donkey's Tail", "Modern Painting".
Literally in 10 years from 1903 to 1913, the artist went from Impressionism and Symbolism to the Russian variety of Fauvism - primitivism and further - to cubofuturism and Suprematism.
Kazimir Malevich spoke as a theoretician of new trends in art in the pamphlet "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism" (1915). In a short time, she withstood 3 editions.
Since the 1910s, the work of Kazimir Malevich has become a kind of "testing ground", which tested and honed the new possibilities of painting. Searches went in different directions, but the main achievement of the artist in these years was the cycle of paintings, which brought Malevich great popularity. These are the well-known canvases "Cow and violin", "Aviator", "Englishman in Moscow", "Portrait of Ivan Klyun". In them, the artist demonstrated a new way of organizing the space of the picture, unknown to the French cubists.
