In the vibrant tapestry of early 20th-century art, Kazimir Malevich’s “Woodcutter” emerges as a significant testament to the artist’s groundbreaking journey into the realm of abstraction and the cubo-futurist style. Crafted in 1912, this oil on canvas painting is a visual embodiment of Malevich’s fascination with the intricate dance between form and color. “Woodcutter” captures … Read more
Kazimir Malevich’s oil on canvas painting “Woman with Rake” is a powerful example of the artist’s “2nd Peasant Cycle” series. Created between 1930 and 1932, this genre painting depicts a peasant woman aggressively clutching a rake, her lack of facial features following Malevich’s stylistic approach during this period. Measuring 100 x 75 cm, “Woman with … Read more
Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement dates to 1912-13 and features a complex myriad of abstract shapes, all coloured with gradients which was common for Malevich during this period. This significant painting is one of the few Malevich artworks to be part of an American collection, with most remaining in Russia, Ukraine or Western Europe. His … Read more
Kazimir Malevich, the pioneering Russian avant-garde artist, is most well known as the founder of the groundbreaking Suprematist movement. However, in his later career in the early 1930s, Malevich returned to exploring the human figure through a series of metaphysical, abstracted paintings of female torsos. Two of his most prominent works in this vein are … Read more
Kazimir Malevich’s “Woman at the Tram Stop,” crafted in 1913, is an iconic Cubo-Futurist artwork that captures a vivid snapshot of urban life in the early 20th century. This fascinating oil on canvas painting, part of the esteemed collection at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is lauded for its rich detail and complex composition. … Read more
Winter Landscape, or Зимний пейзаж as originally titled by the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, is dated at circa 1930, placing it right at the end of this important artist’s career. The piece is classified as Neo-Suprematism which essentially refers to the new direction in which this artist travelled after his earlier abstract formations which would … Read more
The White Cross is part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. That institution host a number of artworks from Malevich’s career, making it one of the best public art galleries from which to learn more about this famous Russian painter. Белый крест, to use its original Russian title, is simplicity itself. Malevich … Read more
Kazimir Malevich’s “White on White” stands as a paradigm of Russian Suprematism, an emblematic demonstration of abstraction and minimalism in art. Created in 1918, this oil-on-canvas painting is an epitome of Malevich’s exploration into the realms of pure form, unanchored by the constraints of objective reality. In it, we observe a delicately angled white square … Read more
This is one of a number of Malevich drawings to be found in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, specifically the venue in New York, USA. These items have been dated to around the artist’s Suprematist period but no more accurately than that. Kazimir Malevich reduced his forms down to the simplest arrangements possible during … Read more
This drawing was produced in gouache and pencil on paper. It can be found in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, USA. It has been given a very loose date of around 1919-26. The artist would sketch out his ideas before then producing more precise drawings in which he would really try … Read more