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Kazimir Malevich

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Kazimir Malevich, born on February 23, 1879 and died on May 15, 1935, was a Russian painter and the founder of Suprematism, an influential movement in 20th-century art. His career spanned various stages, including Symbolism, Cubism, and Suprematism, and he had a profound impact on the development of modern art.

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“I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea”

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?”

Giving Years Art Today Years Ago Works Of Art Pauses Impressive Spontaneity

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.”

Lying White Sea Sky Color Swim Infinity Beaten Torn

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.”

Bits Consciousness Painting Habit Pure Composition Shameless

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“When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling.”

Has Beens Art Feelings Form Spirit Lost Filled Critics Objectives Desert Desperate Squares Refuge Objectivity Ballast

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“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.”

Has Beens Feelings Natural Emotion Objects Essentials Independent Appearance Meaningless

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“Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.”

World Real Eye Faces Form Alive Surface Staring Pairs Plastic

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.”

Should Trying Artist Study Pieces Masters Structure Painter Artistic Just One Copies Squares Inches Execution Canvas Small Pieces Rubens

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“There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement.”

Art States Eye Felt Movement Tension

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“I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.”

Form Creation Painting Objectives Zero Transformed Realism

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.”

Needs Art Artist Screens Dull Sincerity

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“For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.”

Mind Mean Ideas Feelings Objects Expression Pure Conscious Accepted Meaningless Worthless Conscious Mind

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

World Ideas Feelings Lying Taken Understood Symbols Bottles Milk

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.”

Art Form Elements Technique Crafts Artistry Clumsy Awkwardness

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“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”

Mean Art Able Artist Creativity Technology Creating Painter Efficient Primitive Ingenious Famous Artist Creating New Things

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.”

Men Universe Movement Equal Conception Infinity Skulls

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“A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.”

Giving Faces Surface Parody Pitiful

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“I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)”

Mind Mean Made Use Film Certain Color Photography Regard Painter Sensibility Brushes Pencils Charcoal Photography And Film

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“By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.”

Mean Art Feelings Emotion Creative Pure Supremacy Creative Art

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“Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.”

Subjects Color Painting Essence

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“I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.”

Color Blue Shade Constraints Ripped

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“I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.”

White Color Broken Limits Blue Boundaries Swim Infinity Pilots Comrade

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“A painted surface is a real, living form.”

Real Form Surface

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“The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.”

Firsts Art Reason Faces Form Steps Creation Pure Squares First Steps Subconscious Infant Intuitive Regal

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.”

World Feelings Environment Significant Objectives Visuals Meaningless Significant Things

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.”

Creative Painter Engineers Storyteller Psychologist Attorney Anecdotes Archaeologists Zoologist

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“Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.”

Sides Goal Objects Painting Originals Aesthetic

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“The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.”

Feelings White Fields Squares Void

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.”

Needs Art Sincerity

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed: 'Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!'”

Lost Black White Backgrounds Desert Squares

Author:Kazimir Malevich

About the Author

Born: February 23, 1879
Died: May 15, 1935
Known for: Painter
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