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Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) Russian avant-garde artist, whose most famous works include the startling abstract painting Black Square on White , first time exhibited in December 1915. This synthesis of geometric forms and the spirituality of icons was meant to end the narrative art, to eliminate the subject in favor of the pure painting. "The square is a vivid and majestic newborn," Malevich said, "the first step of pure creation in art". However, in the late 1920s Malevich abandoned abstraction and returned to a figurative style in order to meet the demands of the Communist Party. After his death his works were not exhibited in the Soviet Union for decades. Malevich declamatory writings, not always easy to understand, were widely read by Russian artists of his time. "All past and recent painting before Suprematism (as sculpture, verbal art, music) has been subjugated by the shapes of nature, waiting to be liberated, to speak its own language, independent of reason, common sense, logic, philosophy, psychology, laws of causality, and technological changes." (Malevich in 'From Cubism to Suprematism', 1915, from | |
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