What do you think of this painting by Malevich?

 

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post a short comment and put your name everytime you post ~ post your response under the last one

You like it? explain why

 

+Emily Baldwin; This painting by Malevich is pure simplicity. Out of all of the abstract work that I have seen this painting has less on the canvas. I like that he used just two boxes different shapes. I find the two colors together appealing and complimentry to each other. Abstract work is suppose to not have a meaning but just staring at I could interprete it to have some type of meaning. As a whole I really like this this painting.

 

+Beverly Archambeault - I like the clean lines and Malevich's attempt to keep simplicity and uncluttered thoughts in this picture.  His stark geometric shapes,  as a statement,  I believe encouraged simpler times, less need for complex thought or understanding of the work, it simply was. 

 

 Rebekah Bruce: I am not very educated when it comes to artists and their pieces of work. That being said I do like this painting, I like that it is simple and there isn't a lot to try and "figure out" I like that the red stands out and it makes me wonder what Malevich was thinking and feeling when her painted this piece. If I were to give it a negative, I would agree with Kelley, I don't get much feeling from it either.

 

Doreen Ryder: i dont really like abstract art or this painting...but i dont dislike it either. i looks like something that would look good in a room that needed a little red...and every room can use a little red...my favorite color.

 

+Austin Williams: I don’t mind this particular piece, however, to say I like it might be an over statement, never the less I do appreciate the simplicity, keep in mind this comes from an uneducated art eye, and though I find it this piece simple,  I am most certain it is anything but.  

 

DAN MERESTE - I like the structure the color but the painting dont really mean anythimg to me.

 

You don't like it? explain why

 

+ Kelley Santos: Malevich states that "the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling." However, I am not sure if I understand the "feeling" of painting these simple, non-objective geometric patterns.

 

Dan mereste : Because the painting is to simple and I dont really think that I understand what it means.

 

+LWaugh: I get really no feeling from the painting and the art seems, simple and un-thought out, yes the mind could come up with a hundred different things for it, but the Artist says nothing. Though if there was a saying or a riddle to go along with it, then yes, I would like it.

 

Doris Christiani - I enjoy abstract art very much.  However, I don't enjoy work such as this as I feel I have to work at justifying it as a work of art. However, standing in front of this work and staring at for a period of time does create a strange sort of optical illusion.  It comes alive at that point.

 

 

 

Can you describe what you see?

 

+Emily Baldwin; On this painting I see a white background. Then a large balck square. Under the large black square that is positioned to the left of the center of the canvas is a smaller red square. The red square is positioned angled under the black square.

 

+ Kelley Santos: There is a large up-right black square on the top left of the canvas, with a smaller red square angled below it, tilted to the right. These squares are against a white background.

 

+Beverly Archambeault:  Plain, simple shapes - white, black and red squares, with a slight 3d quality to the squares.

 

Dan Mereste: I see a big tan background with a black and red square, the black square appears bigger than the red square.

 

 + Rebekah Bruce: I see an off white background with a black square and a red square which appears to be smaller than the black one. There seems to be a brightness around each square.

 

+ LWaugh: I see two boxes, a simple art the artist made to let the audence wonder on what it meant.

 

+ Doreen Ryder:  it looks 3D...like looking down on two boxes sitting on a cement floor. the most complicated part of the painting looks to me to be the background...doesn't really look white...looks like there are a lot of different shades all together.

 

+Austin Williams:  Can I describe what I see; I see a simple peace of canvas leaving behind texture, a smaller red box and a black box. Then I look a little closer and I see that the black box isn’t just a black box. There is more to it. The black box is really two rectangles pushed together to make what appears to be one square box. Now, the red box on the other hand is set off kilter. This piece is anything but simple; it has me asking “why?”  Why is the red box off kilter? Why is the black box two rectangles pushed together? And so on and so forth.

 

+Doris Christiani - you have stare at the work for a period of time.  THen the shapes will change color and hue.  You can even see new shapes appear with inside and outside of the squares. 

 

 Can you find Online something interesting to share with us about Malevitch or what he paint...?

 

+ Kelley Santos:This painting is known as the "Non-stop Station". I really like this style of art, better than his "Suprematism."  It kinda looks like a bunch of places that a train would stop, as if all the stations were collided into one giant heep. 

 

 

+ Beverly Archambeault:  I find it interesting that the politics of his time opposed his supremacist style, causing him to fall out of favor.  Politics, art, religion always seem to collide regardless of the era.  

 

+ Rebekah Bruce: I looked for a few other of his paintings, I love the snowstorm, I feel if I look hard enough I can see people in the storm, i feel more in tune with that particular painting.

 

 

dan mereste -- I like this painting because of the combination of the colors. I wonder what the cross and the two houses and the sword symblises to the artist.

 

 

+ Austin Williams: Malevich has given the world may wonderful pieces of fine art that have with stood the sands of time, I believe that his supermatism work that started in 1915 is proof of that.   As I was looking at some of his pieces, I found Supremus No. 58, the reason I find this particular piece to be so enjoyable is that it reminds me of a sailing a big tall ship.  You can see the wind push the main mast to a full, in turn making her list to the port side.   You can see the seagulls chasing the crow’s nest and the captain at the helm There’s nothing quite like be out on the open sea.