The Suprematist painting “Black Square” (figure 1) can be considered as a borderline between the earlier classical art (Beaux Art) and modern contemporary art. At the first glance it may seem that Suprematism only appears in the media of painting, but in fact it merges and combines with other forms of art. It also can be seen by itself as in painting, sculpture, drawings, video, design, fashion, stage design, printing and other areas of creative work. Suprematism is being reborn continuously in contemporary art, its ideas and art can be combined with the new media. Art practices now seem to cross categories so much that subdivision might be endless, futile and unhelpful as a way of talking about art. This essay considers Malevich`s “The Black Square” as a part of the Suprematist movement in 1915 to explore this issue.
SUPREMATISM AND MALEVICH`S BLACK SQUARE HISTORICAL CONTEXT Geometric abstract artist and founder of the Russian avant-garde Russian painter of Polish origin, Kazimir…show more content… Russian mentality has long been suffocating in the black pages of history and the late 19th and early 20th century was marked by a particularly severe period. The problem was the tragic imperial system, arbitrariness of the Tsar, industrial downturn, the political lawlessness, poor harvests, famine and diseases, which killed large numbers of people. “When the Black Square was first exhibited, the First World War was raging, there was the instability that followed the 1905 revolution that would soon explode in the Bolshevik uprising’’ (Holthham, Moran 2014). Artists and Malevich could not look at this lightly , so Malevich began to actively engage in revolutionary movements. People were politically and socially tortured and had a desire for the new. Malevich was as a bearer of national enlightenment, which came with Suprematism art movement on the tragic scene of the nation’s
