Malevich's

In Kazimir Malevich's greatest paintings, simple, flat, single-colored geometric shapes torque their white grounds, creating paradoxical abstractions that explore compression, expansion, deep space and competition among overlapping forms—all held taut within the flatness of the malleable picture plane.

Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles Lance Esplund 2011

And turbid works muddy, rather than clarify, Malevich's supreme aesthetic purity.

Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles Lance Esplund 2011

These four works, which Christie's priced to sell for a combined £ 7.2 million or more, were auctioned to help the Chicago museum pay an undisclosed sum for Malevich's "Painterly Realism of a Football Player — Color Masses in the 4th Dimension," a jumble of colorful geometric shapes against a white background that the artist created in 1915.

Chicago Museum Sells Four Works to Pay for Malevich Kelly Crow 2011

Ms. Sussman said she set out in 2008 to make a straightforward film inspired by her affection for dystopian novels and Kazimir Malevich's theoretical manifestos.

A Dystopian Film That Directs Itself 2011

An exhibition of over 50 works asks that we consider another trajectory—from Malevich's purist, muscular geometry to American Minimalism and Conceptualism.

Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles Lance Esplund 2011

Shchusev's design reflected Malevich's belief in the occult properties of the cube.

John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality 2011

The fierce purity of Malevich's geometric designs in black, white, and unmixed primary colors perfectly expressed the radical impulse to symbolically wipe the social slate clean by eliminating representation of any kind.

From Shtetl to Château Dorment, Richard 2009

But the auction catalog details the painting's unlikely path from Stalinist Russia, to Poland, to Nazi Germany, to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, back to Malevich's widely dispersed heirs, and to Sotheby's.

If This Picture Could Talk 2008

Malevich's German supporters fled the Nazis -- except for Hugo Haring, a Bauhaus-trained architect who ran an art school in Berlin after its Jewish director decamped.

If This Picture Could Talk 2008

At that time, the heirs in the U.S.S.R. got a small amount of money when Malevich's personal collection officially entered the State Russian Museum.

If This Picture Could Talk 2008