Fine Art Poster
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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Worker - Kazimir Malevich
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Description
A striking portrait by Kazimir Malevich, featuring a worker rendered in bold primary colours against a stark black background.
This portrait, titled Worker, belongs to the later period of Kazimir Malevich. During this time, the artist returned to figurative painting after his earlier experiments with pure geometric abstraction. The figure is presented against a stark, black background, which removes any sense of physical space or context. This choice forces the viewer to focus entirely on the subject, whose posture and expression suggest a quiet, contemplative state.
The composition is balanced and symmetrical. The worker wears a red vest over a white shirt, accented with blue and yellow bands at the sleeves and collar. These primary colours are characteristic of Malevich's palette, even when he moved away from the non-objective forms of his Suprematist phase. The hands are positioned in a gesture that implies speech or explanation, adding a sense of narrative to the otherwise static image. The facial features are rendered with a degree of simplification, reflecting the artist's interest in reducing human form to its essential components.
Malevich was a central figure in the Russian avant-garde. His career spanned several radical shifts in style, from Neo-primitivism to the invention of Suprematism. In his final years, he revisited the human figure, often depicting peasants or workers in a manner that echoed his early interest in folk art and icon painting. This work demonstrates his ability to apply the lessons of modernism to traditional portraiture. The result is a figure that feels both timeless and grounded in the specific aesthetic language of the early twentieth century. The flat application of colour and the emphasis on clear, bold shapes remain consistent with his broader artistic philosophy, which sought to strip away unnecessary detail to reveal the underlying structure of the visual world.
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Worker - Kazimir Malevich
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Kazimir Malevich
Malevich hung Black Square in the corner of the room where Russians traditionally hang religious icons. This was in 1915, at the Last Futurist Exhibition in Petrograd. A black square on a white ground, placed where the icon should be. He called it the zero of form.
He was born in 1879 near Kyiv, to parents of Polish origin, the eldest of fourteen children. Nine survived to adulthood. He moved through Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism before arriving at Suprematism, a system of pure geometric abstraction that he invented in 1913. White on White (1918) pushed the principle to its logical end: a white square, barely visible, tilted on a white background.
In 1927, he took approximately seventy paintings to Berlin for an exhibition. Soviet authorities recalled him abruptly. He left the entire cache with a German architect named Hugo Haering and never saw them again. The works eventually ended up at MoMA in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
In 1930, the secret police arrested him, accused him of Polish espionage, and threatened execution. He was imprisoned for two months. His teaching position was taken away. Artworks and manuscripts were confiscated. He was banned from making art and forced to return to figurative painting under Stalin.
He died of cancer in 1935, aged fifty-six. On his deathbed, Black Square was hung above him. His ashes were buried at Nemchinovka. He had requested a Suprematist sculptural form to mark his grave. Instead, it was marked with a white cube bearing a black square, which was destroyed during the war.
He was born in 1879 near Kyiv, to parents of Polish origin, the eldest of fourteen children. Nine survived to adulthood. He moved through Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism before arriving at Suprematism, a system of pure geometric abstraction that he invented in 1913. White on White (1918) pushed the principle to its logical end: a white square, barely visible, tilted on a white background.
In 1927, he took approximately seventy paintings to Berlin for an exhibition. Soviet authorities recalled him abruptly. He left the entire cache with a German architect named Hugo Haering and never saw them again. The works eventually ended up at MoMA in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
In 1930, the secret police arrested him, accused him of Polish espionage, and threatened execution. He was imprisoned for two months. His teaching position was taken away. Artworks and manuscripts were confiscated. He was banned from making art and forced to return to figurative painting under Stalin.
He died of cancer in 1935, aged fifty-six. On his deathbed, Black Square was hung above him. His ashes were buried at Nemchinovka. He had requested a Suprematist sculptural form to mark his grave. Instead, it was marked with a white cube bearing a black square, which was destroyed during the war.
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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