KAZIMIR MALEVICH

A key figure in a succession of art movements in the early 20th century, Kazimir Malevich (18791935) was Russias most influential avant-garde artist. His style of severe geometric abstraction, which he called suprematism, was a precursor to constructivism. Whe n, in the 1930s, his work was banned in the Soviet Union after theStalinist regime labeled abstract art as bourgeois, he developed a new kind of fi guration, still with the sole aim of communicating his theories about the nature of art. Illustrated with painting s, drawings, an...[Read more]