Kazimir Malevich (1878 - 1935)

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bulletAvant-garde painter
bulletDesigned costumes for Kruchenykh'sVictory Over the Sun
bulletDesigned the setting for Meyerhold's production of Mayakovsky's Mystery-Bouffe
bulletLaunched suprematism
bullet"pure feeling or perception in pictorial art ...The object in itself means nothing.  Sensibility is the only thing that counts." (qtd. Century, Brockett, 178)
bulletA voice for pure abstraction: 
bullet1915 showing of Black Square on a White Background at "Last Futurist Exhibition of Pictures 0.10"
bullet1918 White on White