Haymaking 1929

Kazimir Malevich made this painting, Haymaking, with oil on canvas, though the exact date is unknown. Look at how the colours are so simple, almost like geometric shapes. I think it’s all about how Malevich is thinking through the act of painting itself. You can see these blocks of colour in the figure’s clothes, a striking red and white that catches your eye, and the black and white figures in the background look like they might as well be Suprematist compositions. It makes you consider the surface, the colours and the shapes. The blue scythe and bucket, they almost look like toys. I wonder if they are the same blue. It reminds me a bit of Leger, maybe. With the colours and the shapes and the way the figures are constructed. I think art is like that, an ongoing conversation that can sometimes raise more questions than answers.