Study for a Suprematistic Composition

Study for a Suprematistic Composition. No date. Gouache and ink on paper. 21.9 x 17.5. Kazimir Malevich is one of the most multi-dimensional and radical artists of the avant-garde who in his creative path went through the impressionism and symbolism of the early 20th century to connect with cubo-futurism and to be influenced by the "superb language" of the Russians futurists, the language that has acquired its own primary meaning based not on knowledge but on feeling and experience, to develop his own theory of non-objective painting which he gave the name ‘suprematism'. "Suprematism" was first introduced at the "Last Futurist Exhibition 0.10" exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1915. Malevich's Suprematist works were devoid of any kind of object and presented compositions of geometric shapes and colors that aimed to declare the primacy of form over content and to declare that the form is what gives the content and not the opposite, as was the case until then. The word "suprematism" comes from the Latin root "suprem" (supremacy, dominance) and indicates, according to Malevich, the supremacy of color over all other technical parts of the painting. Malevich considered himself a idiosyncratic realist, except that he saw realism in an imaginary reality "to reach which one must depart from the visible side of life." Malevich founded the group "Supremus" which was joined by many cubofuturist artists such as Ivan Kliun, Lyubov Popova, Nadiezda Udaltsova, Olga Rozanova and others. while in the city of Vitebsk he directed the fine arts school "Unovis" (Confirmers of New Art) which aimed to change people's aesthetic perception through art. The "Black Square" (1915) became an emblem of suprematism, which expressed the end of the old art and at the same time the beginning of the new. Suprematism.