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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… - Kazimir Malevich
" "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 which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field. The critics and, along with them, the public sighed, 'Everything which we loved was lost. We are in a desert.. .Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!' But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling.. ..which penetrates everything.
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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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Казимир Северинович Малевич
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Малевиць «Азимир Севериновиц»
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Казимир Малевич
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Т. Малевича
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Казимир Малевіт
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Казимир Шеверінович Малевич
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Казімеж Малевич
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Малевич
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Kazymyr Severynovych Malevych
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Malevich
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Kazymyr Malevych
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Kazimierz Malewicz
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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.
I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white, besides me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. 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 put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea lies before you.
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