The Suprematist Compositions of Malévich
Six Paintings. One Concept
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Kazimir Malévich was the greatest mentor of the Suprematism: the movement that proposes the supreme abstraction, the purest one. The artist expresses his look, his vision of the universe, with geometrical forms and pure colors.
His paintings with just a black square, or a red square or a black cross are famous. But beyond that simplicity, he also performed his Suprematist compositions, mainly between 1915 and 1916. We can ironically say that these works are more “sophisticated” since they incorporate several geometrical figures and various colors.
To understand the historical value of this proposal let’s bear in mind that it is the antecedent of the Russian Constructivism, prior to the Neo-plasticism of Mondrian or the Bauhaus; that Hilma af Klint was not known and that Kandinsky, for example, was working with abstraction, but not with this type of supreme geometrical abstraction.
Recommended links:
Kandinsky and the Return to Russia.
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