tag:www.arbitraryconstant.co.uk,2010://6/tag:www.arbitraryconstant.co.uk,2006://6.343-Comments for Beyond zero — LRB (7) vol. 26Movable Type 4.34-entag:www.arbitraryconstant.co.uk,2006://6.3432006-01-01T22:03:28Z2010-02-28T14:21:07ZBeyond zero — LRB (7) vol. 26An interesting and informative article on the Russian Supremist painter Kazimir Malevich, a man that took abstract art through futurism and on into a new realm that incorporated more than our own three dimensions.Kazimir Malevich was the most enigmatic and the most provocative painter of the early Soviet period. He can be seen as a pioneer of abstraction and of the minimalist works produced many years later by such artists as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko...richhttp://www.arbitraryconstant.co.uk
An interesting and informative article on the Russian Supremist painter Kazimir Malevich, a man that took abstract art through futurism and on into a new realm that incorporated more than our own three dimensions.
Kazimir Malevich was the most enigmatic and the most provocative painter of the early Soviet period. He can be seen as a pioneer of abstraction and of the minimalist works produced many years later by such artists as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Yves Klein.
Malevich was obviously an individual that saw much more in a visual representation than simply what that representation was: he was as interested in the "tonal play of the brush-strokes, the abstract impression of the light and colour":
... the contours of the world of objects fade more with every moment - everything we loved and all from which we lived, becomes invisible.
Seeking to find ways in which to express a sort of harmony that he saw between representation and what was being represented, Malevich
... spoke of his 'gradual departure from representational to abstract art', explaining that there was no abyss between the two: abstract art should be though of as involving 'a non-representational relation to representationality and of a representational relation to non-representational thematics - to the thematics of surface, colour and space'.
Suddenly,
Basic geometrical forms - squares, rectangles, trapeziums, triangles, circles, semi-circles and other curvi-linear forms - were not only models for painting, though this was part of their appeal, but also elements of a new utopian future, uniting design, technology and art...
[Malevich's] goal was to create art-forms that would represent his own vision of the future, rather than the everyday reality that dismayed him.
Is not art a way of escaping the "everyday reality" that pervades all of our spaces? What a wonderful idea Malevich had. (A large selection of his Suprematist paintings can be found here.)]]>