Pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian Avant-garde, Malevitch experimented with various modernist styles. In reaction to the influence of Cubism and Futurism on artists in Russia, Malevitch in his art reduced the world of nature to basic elements and colours, such as in his Red Square (1915). He introduced his abstract, non-objective geometric patterns in a style and artistic movement he called Suprematism. One of the important names of the twentieth century, he however turned back to Primitivism once Russia’s communist leaders forced him to do so.
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Gerry Souter. Malevich
Introduction
I. Youth and the Steppes
II. The Discovery of Art and His Experimentations: Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism
Discovering the “Art” within him
Earliest Art Student Days
Impressionism and Experimentation
Fauves, Cubists and Futurists
III. Suprematism
IV. The Flight Crashes to Earth
Biography
Bibliographical Notes
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Self-Portrait, 1910–1911.
Gouache on cardboard, 27 × 26.8 cm.
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The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Carpenter I, motif: 1911–1912, version: 1928–1929. Oil on plywood, 71.8 × 53.8 cm.
