Everywhere there is craft and technique, everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of it awk… - Kazimir Malevich

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Everywhere there is craft and technique, everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of it awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.. .All craft, technique, and artistry, like anything beautiful, results in futility and vulgarity. [critical quote on Constructivism artists]

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About Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1879 – 15 May 1935) was a painter, art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art, and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. He was also the founder of the art movement Suprematism.

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Alternative Names: Казимир Северинович Малевич Малевиць «Азимир Севериновиц» Казимир Малевич Т. Малевича Казимир Малевіт Казимир Шеверінович Малевич Казімеж Малевич Малевич Kazymyr Severynovych Malevych Malevich Kazymyr Malevych Kazimierz Malewicz Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

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I too was filled with a sort of shyness and fear, as I was called to leave 'the world of will and idea' in which I had lived and created, and in whose reality I had believed. But the happy liberating touch of non-objectivity drew me out into the 'desert' where only feeling is real.. ..and so feeling became the content of my life. It was no 'empty square' I had exhibited but the feeling of non-objectivity. I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk? Suprematism is the rediscovery of that pure art which in the course of time, and by an accretion of 'things', had been lost to sight.

There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement. This special movement was discovered by the futurists as a new and hitherto unknown phenomenon in art, a phenomenon which some Futurists were delighted to reflect.

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