Kasimir Malevich
1879
―1935
Kasimir Malevich (born Kazimierz Malewicz in Kyiv) was founder of the Suprematistic Movement (suprematism), an important precursor to constructivism. Teacher at the Kyiv Art Institute, and together with Marc Chagall in Vitebisk.
Malevich loved extremes, his black square painting was displayed in a corner position usually reserved for religious iconography, and also declared the end of representational painting. He was conscious of it’s fame and ordered his family to display the painting with his body before his burial and during the funeral procession itself.
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Objects by Kasimir Malevich
Suprematist composition 8 red
Kasimir Malevich
1915
Malevich self portrait
Kasimir Malevich
1933
Suprematist composition (white on white)
Kasimir Malevich
1918
Malevich funeral
Kasimir Malevich
1935
Black Square
Kasimir Malevich
1915
Supremus 55
Kasimir Malevich
1916
Spring Garden
Kasimir Malevich
1904
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