Occupation: Painter Birth: February 23, 1879 Death: May 15, 1935
When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture….
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the contex….
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "Al….
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create..
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed..
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling..
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity..
Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it..
To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apar….
I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objec….
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its aw….
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, ev….
The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The fir….
I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made ….
I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have….
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no crea….
For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The….
Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile..
By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art..
I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color..
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal..