Kazimir Malevich : Painterly Realism of a Football Player

Kazimir Malevich looked at everything art had ever been - and painted a black square.

Not as a joke. As a manifesto.

 

That single square, exhibited in 1915, declared that pure form, pure colour, pure feeling was enough. He called it Suprematism. The art world called it a scandal. History called it one of the most influential moments in modern art.

Stalin's regime called it dangerous. They weren't entirely wrong - radical art always is.

From Mondrian to minimalism, his influence never stopped. Neither did his work.

 

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