{"title":"Malevich, Kazimir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879-1935)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century. He was born in Kiev, modern-day Ukraine, to an ethnic Polish family. His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access \"the supremacy of pure feeling\" and spirituality. Active primarily in Russia, Malevich was a founder of the artists collective UNOVIS and his work has been variously associated with the Russian avant-garde and the Ukrainian avant-garde, and he was a central figure in the history of modern art in Central and Eastern Europe more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly on, Malevich worked in a variety of styles, quickly assimilating the movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism and, after visiting Paris in 1912, Cubism. Gradually simplifying his style, he developed an approach with key works consisting of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds. His \u003cstrong\u003eBlack Square\u003c\/strong\u003e (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew \"an uncrossable line between old art and new art\". Suprematist Composition: \u003cstrong\u003eWhite on White\u003c\/strong\u003e (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take his ideal of pure abstraction to its logical conclusion. In addition to his paintings, Malevich laid down his theories in writing, such as \"From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism\" (1915) and The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism (1926).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Malevich died of cancer at the age of fifty-seven, in Leningrad on 15 May 1935, his friends and disciples buried his ashes in a grave marked with a black square.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"malevich-66-high-resolution-images","title":"Malevich 66 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnter the Suprematist world of Malevich, the Russian artist born in the city of Kiev in what's now Ukraine. His \u003cstrong\u003eBlack Square\u003c\/strong\u003e (1915) represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew 'an uncrossable line between old art and new art'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 66 hi-res images, in jpeg format, by the artist Kazimir Malevich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 2728 pixels wide\/tall to 6405 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879-1935)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century. He was born in Kiev, modern-day Ukraine, to an ethnic Polish family. 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