Kazimir Malevich
Paintings
House under construction
Suprematism
Future Planitia (home) zemlyanitov (people)
Two peasants on the background fields
Two male figures (in red and white)
Female. Illogical figures, men and women
Brawler (Zabiyaka)
Composition with Mona Lisa (Partial eclipse in Moscow)
Red Square. Picturesque peasant realism in 2 dimensions
Peasant Woman with buckets and child
Mystical religious twist forms
Motives for Suprematist Fabric. Samples for textiles
Man. Illogical figures, men and women
Well, the same crackling, and of the thunder.
Cover folder materials Congress Poor Peasants' Committees
Oval, rectangle, square, curve
Ornamentation fabric No15. Baptiste and chintz. Samples for textiles
Activities (Society in cylinders)
Landscape with a yellow house (Winter Landscape)
Landscape with a yellow house (Winter Landscape)
Landscape with a yellow house (Winter Landscape)
First Suprematist fabric ornamentation
In the morning came from the city
Portrait of the artist's daughter
Portrait of a woman in a yellow hat
Portrait of a worker (Krasnoznamenets Zharnovsky)
Portrait of a worker (Krasnoznamenets Zharnovsky)
Portrait of a family member of the artist
The principle of painting the walls
Complex premonition (torso in yellow shirt)
Seath of a man at the same time on an airplane and rail
Station without stopping. Kuntsevo.
Suprematism (Supremus No58, yellow and black)
Suprematism (with eight rectangles)
Suprematism (black cross on a red oval)
Suprematism self-portrait in two dimensions
Suprematism with a blue triangle and a black triangle
Suprematism. Pointless composition
Suprematism. Scenic volumes in motion
Suprematism. Scenic football realism. - Colorful mass in the fourth dimension
Suprematism. Quadrilateral and circle
Suprematist artist using the triangle
Suprematist composition elements
Suprematist construction color
A scene from the drama of Leonid Andreev Anathema
Table No1. Formula of Suprematism 1913
Table No3. Spatial Suprematism
Torso (Pervoobrazovanie new image)
Enhanced portrait of builder (I.V.Klyuna Portrait)
Enhanced builder Portrait (Portrait I.V.Klyuna) 2
A figure in the form of a cross with his arms raised
Fragment Malevich scenery for the opera Victory over the Sun
Black square in a white square and black circle on a white square (cover)
Black and white square tubular shape
Four pieces with a hammer and sickle
Sewing Woman (People on the train)
The crew on the move. Three
Sketch ornamentation matter No110. Chintz. Samples for textiles
Sketch ornamentation No12 matter. Samples for textiles
Sketch mural paintings (Self-portrait)
Sketch of the fresco painting. Prayer
Sketch of the fresco painting. The triumph of the sky.
2nd action, 5th picture. Square
2nd action, the 6th picture. House
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Suprematism
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1879 – 15 May 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde, Suprematist movement. Kazimir Malevich was born Kazimierz Malewicz to a Polish family who settled near Kiev in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, today Ukraine) during the partitions of Poland. His parents, Ludwika and Seweryn Malewicz, were Roman Catholic like most ethnic Poles.[1] They both had fled from the former eastern territories of the Commonwealth (present-day Kopyl Region of Belarus) to Kiev in the aftermath of the failed Polish January Uprising of 1863 against the tsarist army.[8] His native languages were Polish and Russian.[9]
Kazimir's father managed a sugar factory. Kazimir was the first of fourteen children,[7] only nine of whom survived into adulthood. His family moved often and he spent most of his childhood in the villages of Ukraine, amidst sugar-beet plantations, far from centers of culture. Until age twelve he knew nothing of professional artists, although art had surrounded him in childhood. He delighted in peasant embroidery, and in decorated walls and stoves. He was able to paint in the peasant style. He studied drawing in Kiev from 1895 to 1896.
Artistic career
From 1896 to 1904 Kazimir Malevich lived in Kursk. In 1904, after the death of his father, he moved to Moscow. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture from 1904 to 1910 and in the studio of Fedor Rerberg in Moscow (1904 to 1910). In 1911 he participated in the second exhibition of the group, Soyuz Molodyozhi (Union of Youth) in St. Petersburg, together with Vladimir Tatlin and, in 1912, the group held its third exhibition, which included works by Aleksandra Ekster, Tatlin, and others. In the same year he participated in an exhibition by the collective, Donkey's Tail in Moscow. By that time his works were influenced by Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Russian avant-garde painters, who were particularly interested in Russian folk art called lubok. Malevich described himself as painting in a "Cubo-Futuristic" style in 1912.[11] In March 1913 a major exhibition of Aristarkh Lentulov's paintings opened in Moscow. The effect of this exhibition was comparable with that of Paul Cézanne in Paris in 1907, as all the main Russian avant-garde artists of the time (including Malevich) immediately absorbed the cubist principles and began using them in their works. Already in the same year the Cubo-Futurist opera, Victory Over the Sun, with Malevich's stage-set, became a great success. In 1914 Malevich exhibited his works in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris together with Alexander Archipenko, Sonia Delaunay, Aleksandra Ekster, and Vadim Meller, among others. Malevich also co-illustrated, with Pavel Filonov, Selected Poems with Postscript, 1907–1914 by Velimir Khlebnikov and another work by Khlebnikov in 1914 titled Roar! Gauntlets, 1908–1914, with Vladimir Burliuk.[12][13]
Suprematism
In 1915, Malevich laid down the foundations of Suprematism when he published his manifesto, From Cubism to Suprematism. In 1915–1916 he worked with other Suprematist artists in a peasant/artisan co-operative in Skoptsi and Verbovka village. In 1916–1917 he participated in exhibitions of the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow together with Nathan Altman, David Burliuk, Aleksandra Ekster and others. Famous examples of his Suprematist works include Black Square (1915)[14] and White On White (1918).
Malevich exhibited his first Black Square, now at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, at the Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in Petrograd in 1915.[11] A black square placed against the sun appeared for the first time in the 1913 scenery designs for the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun.[11] The second Black Square was painted around 1923. Some believe that the third Black Square (also at the Tretyakov Gallery) was painted in 1929 for Malevich's solo exhibition, because of the poor condition of the 1915 square. One more Black Square, the smallest and probably the last, may have been intended as a diptych together with the Red Square (though of smaller size) for the exhibition Artists of the RSFSR: 15 Years, held in Leningrad (1932). The two squares, Black and Red, were the centerpiece of the show. This last square, despite the author's note 1913 on the reverse, is believed to have been created in the late twenties or early thirties, for there are no earlier mentions of it.[15]
In 1918, Malevich decorated a play, Mystery Bouffe, by Vladimir Mayakovskiy produced by Vsevolod Meyerhold.
He also was interested in aerial photography and aviation, which led him to abstractions inspired by or derived from aerial landscapes. As Professor Julia Bekman Chadaga (now of Macalaster College [1]) writes:
In his later writings, Malevich defined the "additional element" as the quality of any new visual environment bringing about a change in perception... In a series of diagrams illustrating the "environments" that influence various painterly styles, the Suprematist is associated with a series of aerial views rendering the familiar landscape into an abstraction... (excerpted from Ms. Bekman Chadaga's paper delivered at Columbia University's 2000 symposium, "Art, Technology, and Modernity in Russia and Eastern Europe")
Photograph of Malevich
Some Ukrainian authors claim that Malevich's Suprematism is rooted in the traditional Ukrainian culture.[16][17]
Post-revolution
After the October Revolution (1917), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission (all from 1918–1919). He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in the USSR (now part of Belarus) (1919–1922), the Leningrad Academy of Arts (1922–1927), the Kiev State Art Institute (1927–1929), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad (1930). He wrote the book The World as Non-Objectivity, which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959. In it, he outlines his Suprematist theories.
In 1923, Malevich was appointed director of Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Culture, which was forced to close in 1926 after a Communist party newspaper called it "a government-supported monastery" rife with "counterrevolutionary sermonizing and artistic debauchery." The Soviet state was by then heavily promoting a politically sustainable style of art called Socialist Realism—a style Malevich had spent his entire career repudiating. Nevertheless, he swam with the current, and was quietly tolerated by the Communists.[18]
International recognition and banning
In 1927, Malevich traveled to Warsaw where he was given a hero's welcome.[5] There he met with artists and former students Władysław Strzemiński and Katarzyna Kobro, whose own movement, Unism, was highly influenced by Malevich.[19] He held his first foreign exhibit in the Hotel Polonia Palace.[20] From there the painter ventured on to Berlin and Munich for a retrospective which finally brought him international recognition. He arranged to leave most of the paintings behind when he returned to the Soviet Union. Malevich's assumption that a shifting in the attitudes of the Soviet authorities toward the modernist art movement would take place after the death of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky's fall from power was proven correct in a couple of years, when the Stalinist regime turned against forms of abstraction, considering them a type of "bourgeois" art, that could not express social realities. As a consequence, many of his works were confiscated and he was banned from creating and exhibiting similar art.
Critics derided Malevich's art as a negation of everything good and pure: love of life and love of nature. The Westernizer artist and art historian Alexandre Benois was one such critic. Malevich responded that art can advance and develop for art's sake alone, saying that "art does not need us, and it never did".
Death
Malevich died of cancer in Leningrad on 15 May 1935. On his deathbed he was exhibited with the black square above him, and mourners at his funeral rally were permitted to wave a banner bearing a black square.[18] Malevich had asked to be buried under an oak tree on the outskirts of Nemchinovka, a place to which he felt a special bond.[21] His ashes were sent to Nemchinovka, and buried in a field near his dacha. Nikolai Suetin, a friend of Malevich’s and a fellow artist, designed a white cube with a black square to mark the burial site. The memorial was destroyed during World War II. The city of Leningrad bestowed a pension on Malevich's mother and daughter.
In 2013, an apartment block was built on the place of the tomb and burial site of Kazimir Malevich. Another nearby monument to Malevich, put up in 1988, is now also situated on the grounds of a gated community.[21]
Polish ethnicity
Malevich's family was like millions of Poles who lived within the Russian Empire following the Partitions of Poland. Kazimir Malevich was born near Kiev[7] on lands that had been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth[22] of parents who were ethnic Poles[1] and had fled to Kiev in the aftermath of the January Uprising of 1863.[8]
Both Polish and Russian were native languages of Malevich,[23] who would sign his artwork in the Polish form of his name as Kazimierz Malewicz.[24] In a visa application to travel to France, Malewicz claimed Polish as his nationality.[22] French art historian Andrei Nakov, who re-established Malevich's birth year as 1879 (and not 1878), has argued for restoration of the Polish spelling of Malevich's name.
In 2013, Malevich's family in New York City and fans founded the not-for-profit The Rectangular Circle of Friends of Kazimierz Malewicz, whose dedicated goal is to promote awareness of Kazimir's Polish ethnicity.[22] Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA is an honorary member of this not-for profit, and has attended meetings with his wife Elizabeth who is a historian of architecture.[22]
Posthumous exhibitions
Malevich Portrait of Mikhail Matjuschin, 1913
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. included several paintings in the groundbreaking exhibition “Cubism and Abstract Art” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1936. In 1939, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting opened in New York, whose founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim – an early and passionate collector of the Russian avant-garde – was inspired by the same aesthetic ideals and spiritual quest that exemplified Malevich’s art.[25]
The first U.S. retrospective of Malevich’s work in 1973 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum provoked a flood of interest and further intensified his impact on postwar American and European artists.[25] However, most of Malevich’s work and the story of the Russian avant-garde remained under lock and key until Glasnost.[7] In 1989, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam held the West’s first large-scale Malevich retrospective, including its own paintings and works from the collection of Russian art critic Nikolai Khardzhiev.[7]
Collections
Malevich's works are held in several major art museums, including the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and in New York, the Museum of Modern Art[7] and the Guggenheim Museum. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam owns 24 Malevich paintings, more than any other museum outside of Russia.[7] Another major collection of Malevich works is held by the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.[7]
Art market
Black Square, the fourth version of his magnum opus painted in the 1920s, was discovered in 1993 in Samara and purchased by Inkombank for US$250,000.[26] In April 2002 the painting was auctioned for an equivalent of US$1 million. The purchase was financed by the Russian philanthropist Vladimir Potanin, who donated funds to the Russian Ministry of Culture,[27] and ultimately, to the State Hermitage Museum collection.[26] According to the Hermitage website, this was the largest private contribution to state art museums since the October Revolution.[27]
On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby's in New York City for just over US$60 million (surpassing his previous record of US$17 million set in 2000).
In popular culture
Malevich's life inspires many references featuring events and the paintings as players. The smuggling of Malevich paintings out of Russia is a key to the plot line of writer Martin Cruz Smith's thriller Red Square. Noah Charney's novel, The Art Thief tells the story of two stolen Malevich White on White paintings, and discusses the implications of Malevich's radical Suprematist compositions on the art world. British artist Keith Coventry has used Malevich's paintings to make comments on modernism, in particular his Estate Paintings. Malevich's work also is featured prominently in the Lars Von Trier film, Melancholia.
In 1911 Brocard & Co. produced eau de cologne called Severny, with the packing and label designed by Malevich. This cologne was produced until the beginning of the 1990s.[28]
Selected works
1912 Morning in the Country after Snowstorm
1912 The Woodcutter
1912-13 Reaper on Red Background
1914 The Aviator
1914 An Englishman in Moscow
1914 Soldier of the First Division
1915 Black Square and Red Square
1915 Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension
1915 Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions
1915 Suprematist Composition
1915 Suprematism (1915)
1915 Suprematist Painting: Aeroplane Flying
1915 Suprematism: Self-Portrait in Two Dimensions
1915-16 Suprematist Painting (Ludwigshafen)
1916 Suprematist Painting (1916)
1916 Supremus No. 56
1916-17 Suprematism (1916–17)
1917 Suprematist Painting (1917)
1918 White on White
1928-32 Complex Presentiment: Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt
1932-34 Running Man
Footnotes
Russian: Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич [kəzʲɪˈmʲir sʲɪvʲɪˈrʲinəvʲɪtɕ mɐˈlʲevʲɪtɕ], Polish: Kazimierz Malewicz, Ukrainian: Казимир Северинович Малевич [kazɪˈmɪr sɛwɛˈrɪnɔwɪtʃ mɑˈlɛwɪtʃ], Belarusian: Казімер Сэвэрынавіч Малевіч [kaziˈmʲer sɛwɛrˈɪnawʲitʃ mɑˈlɛwitʃ], German: Kasimir Malewitsch
Citations
Milner and Malevich 1996, p. X; Néret 2003, p. 7; Shatskikh and Schwartz, p. 84.
Kazimir Malevich at Encyclopædia Britannica
"Malevich, Kasimir — A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
"Casimir Malevich — The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
Andrzej Turowski (2002). Malewicz w Warszawie: Rekonstrukcje i Symulacje [Malevich in Warsaw: Reconstructions and Simulations]. Krakow: Universitas. ISBN 8370524869. "Foreword."
N.D. (26 July 2013), Walczą o polskość Malewicza (Advocating the Polishness of Malewicz) Nowy Dziennik.
Nina Siegal (November 5, 2013), Rare Glimpse of the Elusive Kazimir Malevich New York Times.
"Kazimir Malevich at Author's Calendar by Petri Liukkonen (author) & Ari Pesonen, 2008". Kirjasto.sci.fi. 1935-05-15. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
Railing, Patricia. "Kazimir Malevich Biography".
"Malevich, Black Square, 1915, Guggenheim New York, exhibition, 2003-2004". Archive.org. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
Honour, H. and Fleming, J. (2009) A World History of Art. 7th edn. London: Laurence King Publishing, pp. 794-795. ISBN 9781856695848
"Selected Poems with Postscript, 1907–1914". World Digital Library. 1914. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
"Roar! Gauntlets, 1908–1914". World Digital Library. 1914. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
Drutt and Malevich 2003, p. 243.
"Hermitage Museum, ''Malevich. Black Square'', Exhibition: 20 June, 2002 - 30 June, 2003". Hermitagemuseum.org. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
"Kazimir MALEVICH: the Ukrainian roots of his avant-garde art". Day.kiev.ua. 2011-12-27. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
"THE ART WORLD: Kazimir Malevich and Ukraine". Zoryafineart.com. 2004-04-11. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Volume 305, Number 11 (March 16, 2011), p. 1066
"The Collection | Suprematism". MoMA. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
http://culture.pl/pl/wydarzenie/reportaz-z-wystawy-kazimierza-malewicza
Sophia Kishkovsky (August 30, 2013), Malevich’s Burial Site Is Found, Underneath Housing Development New York Times.
http://www.dziennik.com/publicystyka/artykul/walcza-o-polskosc-malewicza
http://www.incorm.eu/Biogs/Malevich.pdf
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w9uEHrbEwWE/T7Ol2wGoIYI/AAAAAAAAMmo/ZXf8HuLtawc/s1600/Artysta_podpis_Tiff+4.jpg
Malevich and the American Legacy, March 3 - April 30, 2011 Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Sophia Kishkovsky (July 18, 2002). "From a Crate of Potatoes, a Noteworthy Gift Emerges". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
"Co-operation With the State Hermitage Museum". State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
Alexandra Shatskikh, Translated in English by Marian Schwartz. Black Square, Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism, Malevich’s perfume bottle for the eau de cologne Severny, Page 94. Yale University Press. November 2012. ISBN 9780300140897
References
Crone, Rainer, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, and David Moos. Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. in 498 libraries according to [1]
Andrei Nakov Kasimir Malevich, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, Adam Biro, 2002
Andrei Nakov vol. IV of Kasimir Malevich, le peintre absolu, Paris, Thalia Édition, 2007
The Non-objective World, Kasimir Malevich, trans. Howard Dearstyne, Paul Theobald, 1959. ISBN 0-486-42974-1
Kazimir Malevich and Suprematism 1878-1935, Gilles Néret, Taschen, 2003. ISBN 0-87414-119-2
Dreikausen, Margret, "Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art" (Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ; London, England; Mississauga, Ontario: 1985). ISBN 0-87982-040-3
Drutt, Matthew; Malevich, Kazimir, Kazimir Malevich: suprematism, Guggenheim Museum, 2003, ISBN 0-89207-265-2
Milner, John; Malevich, Kazimir, Kazimir Malevich and the art of geometry, Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-300-06417-9
Shatskikh, Aleksandra S, and Marian Schwartz, Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism, 2012. ISBN 9780300140897
Shishanov V.A. Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art: a history of creation and a collection. 1918–1941. - Minsk: Medisont, 2007. - 144 p.Mylivepage.ru
Kazimir Malevich in the State Russian Museum. Palace Editions. ISBN 978-3-930775-76-7. (English Edition)
Malevich and his Influence, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2008. ISBN 978-3-7757-1877-6
Ivanov, Sergei."Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School". Saint Petersburg: NP-Print, 2007, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7
Honour, H. and Fleming, J. (2009) A World History of Art. 7th edn. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 9781856695848
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