What do you think of This Painting done by The Artist Kazimir Malevich in 1917 ?

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You like it? explain why post a short comment and put your name everytime you post ~ write your post after the last post ( under)...

 

 

 

Dona Finocchio

Im glad you picked this one instead of the two boxes. I like this one. My first thoughts were that everything is off balance like life. Sometimes things shift to the right and sometimes they shift to the left. Sometimes things are easy to catch like round objects and sometimes things are harder to catch like the squares.

 

Henry Wingate

I like it, very quiet and subtle. Not a grand fan of abstract art, this painting is quite soothing. You can make your own decision on what it means. Like Deb, I liked white on white best. White on white is so minimal, so relaxing. Took a while to do something like it for the class assignment. Userally like bold drawings and painting with vivid color. Or more simply put, different, and white on white is different.

 

John Konyn

I'm not really sure of what to think about the painting. To be honest i have had a really hard time with this abstract assignment. Its hard for me to draw or paint something with such little structure. My mind wants to draw something with detail, and perfection, and its hard for me to stear my mind in the opposite direction. The painting to me is alright, i wouldnt say i like it all that much, but then again im not really sure what i dislike about it?

 

Mathieu Landry

To me, this painting is very relaxed with nice organization of colors to help the image attract the eyes. Unlike the white on white piece, which did not stimulate my eyes visually, I prefer colors with smooth lines and definite shapes. White on white, to me, seemed boring and unemotional.

 

S Ferreira I like it because is simple and has not too many colors .

 

Peter Marinos

I like the painting. When i look at it i feel like everything is falling. If it is able to give my some kind of emotion it is good in my eyes. I think that if the colors were a little brighter the painting would be better though.

 

Justin Georges

It is very simple, and soft. I like absract art, it means something different to each person. There is alot of meaning behind the shapes. I belive, sometimes I can see a face, other times I see something completly different. I guess thats why I like abstact art so much - the images can influence me differently each time I look at them, seeing or feeling a new reality I didn't the first time.

 

Lea

My first impression of the painting was pleasure. I like this painting. The shapes seem to be floating and coming off of the painting. I also like the colors Malevich chose. The rectangular shapes remind me of books.

 

David Rogers

This painting is one I would hang in my living room! It is soft and organic and makes me feel at peace, even though it "isn't anything" I recognize. The background sets the tone...peaceful..the interjections throughout, of color and form, jolt me, then refocus me on yet another level, as I wander through the painting.

 

Sarah EvansI enjoy the still chaos of this painting. The lines are not parallel or even symetrical for the most part but the painting as a whole seems in perfect balance.

I like that it is simple and uncluttered. The colors complement eachother with some being muted and some loud. In my opinion this is an attractive painting.

 

 

Andrew Belcher I enjoy this painting. The background has a hazy, almost dusty matte finish, while the acrid contrast of size and color of the surrounding shapes give an illusory sense of depth. Overall, the painting has a rather uncomfortable placidity that is strangely fixating and pleasurable to the eye.

 You don't like it? explain why

 

 

Jennifer collum

I dont like it. I am not sure why really? I dont think I am a fan of abstract art. This picture is very hard to me, all the strait lines, and I dont like the color combination. I know its a famous painting but to me it looks like a cheap over the couch piece...sorry but thats my honest answer.

 

Deb Ambroseno

I liked the white on white better. For some reason I find it easier to like more minimalist abstract art when the piece involves different colored shapes. I find it harder to identify with the chaos in this piece and I don't like the colors that were used in this piece. I like the differences in the white on white piece because Malevich used a cool white and a warm white. I liked the simplicity of that one and this lacks that same simplicity. I think the real reason that I dislike this composition is the lack of depth. I liked the white on white because it felt like the cool square was above the warm square...I thought it looked like it was floating away from it like a square astronaut from an equally square moon.

 

Anthony DiMonte

It just seems really plain and boring. The colors dont really jump out at you, they're too dull. I like art work that gets your atttention and this piece isn't doing it for me.

 

Jackie O'Brien

I'm not a fan of abstract art- and especially pieces like this. I find this piece boring. I do like neutral colors but these seem very dull. The drawing is very flat. It looks more to me like a test sheet for colors and lines then an actual drawing. I have a hard time trying to derive meaning from something like this.

 

Ben Piearson

I don't usually care for abstract art. I don't know if it's because I'm not really an artist, but I am not usually able to find any sort of meaning behind basic shapes. I wouldn't even give this a second look in an art museum.

 

Liz Gropman

This painting doesn't move me in anyway. i don't think it is ugly it's just not my taste.

 

Can you describe what you see?

 

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Henry Wingate

Majority of color is subdued, but there is some bold color used sparingly. Some minor out lining of sand colored areas of color. In the middle is a long pink rectangle and two colorblue rectangles directly over it, but smaller . At bottom of painting is blue area with a bold black rectangle and again two, maybe three small rectangles off to the left. Malevich understood political issues, could he have been that far thinking to first draw the Suez Canal, large pink rectangle, and a blue ship going thru, and for see problem in the area, with the big black rectangle and maybe a ship going away.

 

John Konyn

What i see are basic shapes of circlies squares and rectangles. The colors add another element to the painting, and i think grabed my attention when i first looked at it.

 

Deb Ambroseno

I see an arial view of something, but I'm not so sure what. They could be buildings, or a ship like Henry said. I'm not so sure, but the washed out colors of the background suggest soil or barren land and the rectangles could be construed as buildings of some sort.

 

Mathieu Landry

After several glances it looks like a guy’s half face, smoking a cigarette or cigar, yelling at someone or some thing, with a top had on his head. That’s what I see, call me crazy!

S Ferreira I can see a sunnny day, a fish and a building, what made me think of two live styles.

 

Peter Marinos

When i look at this painting all i can think of is Mario Brothers and the obstacles that they have to conquer to enter to the next level. Most levels of the game is made of blocks that are moving and the blocks in this painting look to be in motion.

 

Lea Wilson

The long thin black rectangle on the gray oval is a gun on an army tank and there are moving targets - the red and green rectangles are fleeing.

 

Anthony DiMonte

It looks like an alien wearing a top hat thats holding a rifle over his shoulder and he's standing at attention.

 

Adam Crossetti

This is a very intriguing work indeed. The first thing that struck me was the weight of the objects in the painting, because to me it looks as if they are floating. Mostly because of the large curved object in the background that gives the painting a sense of power, and purpose. It's a very empowering design, the smaller shapes act as the mob, rallying with their leaders and rising to greatness with them. I particularly like the use of bold colors, and their placement. They are only found in the upper and lower portions of the painting, leaving the large curved "leader" shape almost untouched in the background as if to show off it's power. One more note on the large "shape", is that it is very neutral in the painting, a bit hard to see, which gives me the idea that this painting is about a people who live democratically.

 

Jackie O'Brien

All i see is basic shapes that are colored differently. I respect that everyone has different methods of expressing themselves- but i personally can't derive anything else from this.

 

David Rogers

So here goes, on what I see in the painting. It is a soft dream. Shapes and ideas floating...and then every once in awhile...blam!!! something jolts me and grounds me. It doesn't matter to me what the shapes represent..they simply are touchstones to carry me through the entire painting, as I stop along the way to admire and become absorbed in the color, the form, the movement onto the next stop...

 

Dona Finocchio

Earthy tones, kind of subtle, soothing. I could stare at it and sort of clear my mind a bit, because it could either mean something or nothing at all.

 

Liz Gropman

To me it looks like he painted a picture of a wall and some wall decorations, a couple shelves, some things hanging from the wall, maybe a few books.

 

 Andrew Belcher

 My first thoughts were of observing some sort of organism in a petri dish via microscope. The arrangement of shapes and sizes almost seem like chromosomes in the nucleus of some proliferating bacteria. Another thought, as Deb commented, was that of an aerial view. Perhaps of some brave new world, futurisitc metropolis. Through and through, I feel the painting has a strong, organic presence.

 

 

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

 

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Henry Wingate

Found a web site, Olga' s gallaries, also abcgallary.com. The site states that they have images of 10000 paintings and drawing line. Not sure if that is true, but they have close to 200 of Malevich. There is a index of artists by first letter of last name. Interesting to look at other other artist of the same period work. Malevich went thru a few transitions in his art, early work was similar to Seurat, but brush strokes, not just dots, but subject similar. He transitioned, as Picaso also, to more non traditions cubic works. Suprematism was a 5 or six year experiment, about 1915-1920. He had a problem, live in Russia, that put sanctions on people that did not follow State wish. Later works were more traditional. He did tradition work, like protraits, assume to eat more or less regularly. Think the grid of black lines, randomly space, and a touch of color, is artistic representation of arial photography, which history says he enjoyed.

 

John Konyn

As far as online stuff, i basically did a google search for images in google, and there were many different ones that came up. Nothing that interesting, just some really good drawings here is one i liked http://splendidmarbles.com/mymorningface-500.jpg

 

I went here: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/malevich.html and I found all of the other supremetism paintings compelling except for tho one we are all discussing. (Suprematist Painting (1917)) I think this has a great deal to do with the colors chosen...I like all the other ones better because they all had more bold colors. My favorite on that site was Morning in the Country after Snowstorm. I liked the depth in this piece and the approach to the snow was intriguing.

 

Lea Wilson

I found some info at http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ and russianpaintings.net and also the WebMuseum, Paris.

Malevich's work was not so highly regarded in his homeland at the time. Many abstract artists were not appreciated until years later. Today, a single Malevich work is worth upwards to a million dollars. Malevich taught art theory - the less is more approach. He "stretched the very definition of painted art almost to the breaking point". He believed in creating from the internal movements of the personality, searched out from within.

 

Peter Marinos

I found a wiki page about his life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich I though that it was interesting that he studies art in Moscow

 

Mathieu Landry

Malevich worked on government war propaganda in the 1914's. Below are links to two of his lithographs. Referenced from http://library.thinkquest.org/C005707F/malevich.htm

 

S Ferreira

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/kazimir_malevich I like his respond to the critics when they said" he was negating everything good and pure". Malevich said that "art can advance and develop for art's sake alone, art does not need us."

The French Allies (http://www.abcgallery.com/M/malevich/malevich91.html)

What a Boom! What a Blast!** (http://nga.gov.au/RevolutionaryRussians/details/57498.cfm)

Malevich was not shy on showing the heads roll..

 

Liz Gropman

www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Malevik.htlm there are some really neat and colorful pictures on this website. Check it oput.