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KAZIMIR MALEVICH

Kazimir Malevich was a Russian avant-garde[nb artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century.

He was born in Kiev, modern-day Ukraine, to an ethnic Polish family. His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access "the supremacy of pure feeling" and spirituality. Active primarily in Russia, Malevich was a founder of the artists collective UNOVIS and his work has been variously associated with the Russian avant-garde and the Ukrainian avant-garde, and he was a central figure in the history of modern art in Central and Eastern Europe more broadly. Early on, Malevich worked in a variety of styles, quickly assimilating the movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism and, after visiting Paris in 1912, Cubism. Gradually simplifying his style, he developed an approach with key works consisting of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds.

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In 1922, the management of the Leningrad Porcelain Factory invited Kazimir Malevich and two of his students, Nikolai Suetin and Ilya Chashnik, to collaborate. Malevich created the concept of Suprematist porcelain. Malevich was an innovator not only in painting porcelain, he was also interested in the form of the object itself: already in the 1920s he began to look for new forms of tableware.

Today, the public's interest in Art-merch objects by such artist as Malevich, and other authors remains at an extremely high level