Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Malevich (Kazimir Severinovich Malevich; 1879 – 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist. He was born in modern-day Ukraine, to an ethnic Polish family. He was a pioneer in the development of Abstract Art in the 20th century. Malevich’s concept of Suprematism, the art movement he founded, sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms and subject matter to access “the supremacy of pure feeling” and spirituality. His painting technique involved the use of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds. His most influential works, such as “Black Square” (1915) and “Suprematist Composition: White on White” (1918), represented the most radically Abstract paintings known at the time.