Two Figures in a Landscape 1932

Kazimir Malevich made this painting, "Two Figures in a Landscape", sometime between the early 1900s and 1930s, and it's pure visual poetry. The painting is like a stage set with these two figures taking center stage, and the landscape sitting just behind them. What gets me is the paint itself, it’s laid on so flat, and so direct, you can almost see him willing the image into being. The colors feel both bold and deliberate. Look at the bands of color in the background. The way the white lines of the buildings disrupt the composition reminds me of a musical score. And those faceless figures! They're not about who they are, but what they represent. Like an idea, or a feeling. I see the echoes of folk art in Malevich, he simplifies forms to get to something fundamental. It feels like he's trying to capture a memory or a feeling more than an image. Like, what is the essence of being in a landscape? What do you feel?