Kasimir Malevitch is born in Kiev (Ukraine, Russian Empire then) in 1879. He is considered one of the fathers of abstraction. Multidisciplinary artist, he becomes a painter, engraver illustrator, sculptor and theorist. Malevich is the creator of an artistic movement, which he calls Suprematism, the three building blocks are the Black Square, the Black Cross and the Black Circle. Supremacism shows the infinity of space, and the relationship of attraction and rejection forms. After training as a...

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  Biography of Kasimir Malévitch

  Kasimir Malevitch is born in Kiev (Ukraine, Russian Empire then) in 1879. He is considered one of the fathers of abstraction. Multidisciplinary artist, he becomes a painter, engraver illustrator, sculptor and theorist. Malevich is the creator of an artistic movement, which he calls Suprematism, the three building blocks are the Black Square, the Black Cross and the Black Circle. Supremacism shows the infinity of space, and the relationship of attraction and rejection forms. After training as a designer in Moscow (1902), self-taught, he develops a visual work that is declined during his life in a dozen different styles: realism, impressionism, symbolism, Cezannism, Fauvism, neoprimitivisme, Cubofuturism, cubism illogical , Suprematism, supernaturalism. From 1907 to 1935, he participates in 35 avant-garde exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Malevich is an active member of the Russian artistic avant-garde and frequents Kandinsky, Chagall, Matiouchine, El Lissitzky and Rodchenko. At the end of 1915, he exhibits in Petrograd a set of 39 works he calls “supremacy”; with “Quadrangle” (Black square on white background), Malevich forges a landmark work of Suprematism. With the Revolution of 1917, Malevich accepts institutional functions as a teacher and researcher, and fights for democratization. In 1918 he paints “White on White” which is considered the first monochrome of contemporary painting. His manuscript “The supremacism or the World without object” is published by the Bauhaus. A prolific artist, he continues to paint throughout his life. In 1929, he is accused by the Soviet of subjectivism and philosophical dreamer and, in the years after, Malevich is constantly attacked by the press, losing his official duties, and is even imprisoned and tortured. Victim of cancer, he dies in Leningrad in 1935. The condemnation of his work and the supremacy movement by the Soviet government is accompanied by the oblivion of his work during decades, recognition of this artist starting only in the 1970s. Since then, numerous retrospectives around the world are devoted to Kazimir Malevich celebrating him as one of the masters of abstract art.
  

  

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