Suprematism 1915

Kazimir Malevich made this painting, called Suprematism, with oil on canvas. I imagine Malevich laying down these different shapes, rectangles, squares, and lines, as if they are objects floating in space or maybe letters dancing on a page. I wonder if he was thinking about the relationship of form to space. The orange rectangles, with their grainy textures, contrast so sharply with the smooth, almost mechanical finish of the black square. I can see him experimenting, shifting each element slightly until a new visual rhythm emerges. There’s something very pure about this painting. The red cross has a kind of energy, but it is also calm. Malevich wasn't just depicting space; he was creating a new way of seeing it, feeling it. And like all good paintings, it makes you look at the world differently. I think he’d like to know that his paintings still provoke new ways of seeing.