Malevich 1915

Last year I came across the 'Suprematism' art movement which came from the Russian artist Malevich starting 1913- late 1920's. Heavily influenced by poets and literary critics; Malevich followed the thought of these critics in the fact that they wanted to understand what constituted literature and Malevich wanted to d out the bare essentials for art.

His work is highly inspiring to me as It contains most aspects I look for in a painting; colour and shape.

His work has Brough me to the conclusion that composition does not have to be tidy and exact, the moving planes make the shapes look like they are on different layers and the bright colours onto of the darker colours really makes them stand out.

There is more than one focal point which I really enjoy using in my own work; The piece below especially has taught me that I don't have to create a precise and uniform painting for it to be appealing to myself.

I came across his name as he was very similar to Mondrian in the sense they both passed through Cubism and had their own ideas of abstraction, his work is pictured below. (Lady - Colour masses in the 4th and 2nd Dimension 1915) More known for his work 'The Black Square' I am seemingly more interested in his more colourful and plentiful busy work. Another art movement which Malevich was linked to is 'Cubo-futurism' which I am yet to look into.