Kazimir Malevich

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from within the visible expression of what he felt.
Malevich described Suprematism at its moment of birth as a 'purely pictorial art'. From his point of view it represented the highest manifestation of inherent value of art. It may be wrong to approach Suprematism as painting in the ordinary, traditional sense of the word. Despite its geometric simplicity -- the source is of very contemporary appeal, because it reduces what is complex to its elementary form. Suprematism embodies a fundamentally different approach to the entire concept of artistic creativity. To discover what is involved one might start with the "Black Square", the original statement of Suprematism.
Black Square is Malevich’s most significant Suprematist painting. In the minds of his contemporaries this painting acquired the force of a magical formula. Within the square of the canvas is a square depicted with the expressiveness of the new art. Malevich depicted only a square, perfect in expression and in relation to ...

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point of reference.

In Malevich's picture this effect acquires a sort of doubly extra spatial significance. The black square's surface exists as discrete space on a the white, except that it appears to be infinitely remote because the eye registers only blackness. The white surface is not a background here, but an equivalent representational component. This equivalence proved to be of fundamental importance for the whole future formulation of Suprematism. There is astonishing integrity in this simple composition. A more concise statement of the most generalized conception of space built into a plane is difficult to imagine. Malevich's picture provides a kind of formula for space by ...

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