DIGITAL SUPREMATISM

Tom R. Chambers has  taken six pieces from his "Digital Suprematism" project and reworked their colors to reflect the Ukrainian flag (blue and yellow) to stand with the people of this country to fight against tyranny/authoritarianism. Courtesy of Wikipedia: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Main articles:  2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis  and  2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine In spring 2021, Russia began building up troop strengths along its border with Ukraine. On 22 February 2022, Russian President  Vladimir Putin  ordered military forces to enter the breakaway Ukrainian republics of  Donetsk  and  Luhansk , calling the act a "peacekeeping mission". Putin also officially recognized Donetsk and Luhansk as sovereign states, fully independent from the Ukrainian government. In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Putin announced a "special military operation" to "demilitarize and de-Nazify" Ukraine. A large-scale invasion was launched. La...

Tom R. Chambers  put together a support piece for the Ukrainian people (as a result of Russia's attack on their country, 2022) based on his "My Dear Malevich" project: MY DEAR MALEVICH (MDM) (supabsmin.blogspot.com) and the country's flag. Kazimir Malevich, founder of the Suprematism art movement, was born (Polish descent) in Kyiv, Ukraine. Chambers has superimposed several of the art pieces from the project onto the geometric pattern (two equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow) of the flag. The pieces are blended into the color fields to indicate solidarity.

Artists throughout millennia have been under the influence of a power base. Contemptibility in society coupled with political insensitivity quells the creative spirit. In Kazimir Malevich's case (founder of the Suprematism art movement): After the October Revolution (1917), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission (all from 1918/1919). He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in the USSR (now part of Belarus) (1919/1922), the Leningrad Academy of Arts (1922/1927), the Kyiv State Art Institute (1927/1929), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad (1930). He wrote the book, The World as Non-Objectivity , which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959. In it, he outlines his Suprematist theories. In 1923, Malevich was appointed director of Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Culture. He painted his "Black Cross" the same year. The institute wa...