Girls in the Fields 1932

Kazimir Malevich made this painting, ‘Girls in the Fields,’ with oil on canvas, and it’s a trip. The palette is so limited, yet the way he plays with it—using the white, red, blue, black, and green—it's like he’s testing the limits of what simple shapes can do. I imagine Malevich, brush in hand, maybe thinking about how shapes and colors can speak louder than figures. It’s like he's distilling these figures down to their purest form. The way he divides their bodies into color blocks...it's kind of wild, right? Each block is like a note in a chord. Looking at it, you can see how he was pushing beyond just representing something. He must have thought about how painting could be a way of feeling and thinking. And now we get to keep the conversation going.