Kazimir Severinovich Malevich class task

During class we were put into groups to research the painter kazimir malevich we then later pooled our research so that we could gain a better understanding of the artist. bellow is the information i gathered on Malevich.

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich is a historical, modern artist and was born on February 23, 1878 and was a Russian painter He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist. He later died at the age of 55 on 15 May 1935

He made the black square in the year 1923. It is made of mixed colours, none of which is black. The paint has cracked over time, creating an intricate network of line which some assert represents a running buffalo.

The Black Square came to be by accident: a major futuristic exhibition was fast approaching at which Malevich and his fellow artists had a huge hall reserved for their works.

On learning that there would be a lot of wall space to fill up, the artists urgently began creating more works. Malevich couldn't get his one going, so simply painted the canvas over.

Malevich himself used to say that he had created the Black Square in a mystical trance, under the influence of a "cosmic consciousness" experience.