DIGITAL SUPREMATISM

Suprematism posters incorporating Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square", "Red Square", "Black Circle", "White Square", and "Black Cross".

THE PRIMORDIAL PIXEL These"Pixelscapes" are similar to Color Field painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. This movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form and process. In Color Field painting, color is freed from objective context, and it becomes the subject in itself (Themes in American Art: Abstraction, National Gallery of Art, Web, May 9, 2010). Color Field painting emerged out of the attempts of several artists to devise a modern, mythic art. Seeking to connect with the primordial emotions locked in ancient myths, rather than the symbols themselves, they sought a new style that would do away with any suggestion of illustration (theartstory.org/movement-color-field-painting). Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt and Arshile Gorky (in his last works) are among the prominent abs...

Suprematist Representations of Kazimir Malevich's Work PRIOR TO "BLACK SQUARE" Digital reproductions of Kazimir Malevich 's work are magnified to reveal pixel configurations that rival works in Suprematism, Abstraction, Minimalism, Geometric, and Color Field art movements. They are brought to the forefront via these early works to celebrate Malevich's latent and ultimate creativity which gave way to Suprematism with the display of "Black Square" and other works in 1915 as part of the Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 . The perusal of these "Pixelscapes" shows an occasional "Black Square", "Red Square", "White Square", and "Black Cross" that Malevich created as iconic representations of his art movement. The overall geometry and color fields are in keeping with Suprematism. As it relates to the timeframe of the above works: 1900 - 1914: According to kazimir-malevich.org : P...

BSI-11/BLACK SQUARE ROTATION BLACK CIRCLE This project is a video/installation piece re: the transformation of Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" to "Black Circle" via rotation or movement. The evolution from one geometric form to another - square to circle - via kinetics (movement) is in keeping with Malevich's description of the artworks as "new icons for the aesthetics of modern art" within the art movement, Suprematism. He created this Suprematist grammar based on fundamental geometric forms - in particular, the square and the circle. In the 0.10 Exhibition in 1915 (the Dobychina Art Bureau at Marsovo Pole, Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]), Malevich exhibited his "Black Square" and "Black Circle". (Wp) Keep your focus centered on "Black Square" to experience the conjuration of "Black Circle".

BSI-9/BOURGEOIS BLACK SQUARE This project is a video/installation piece re: the Stalinist regime that turned against forms of abstraction, considering them a type of "bourgeois" art, that could not express social realities. Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" was considered such, and many of his works were confiscated. He was also banned from creating and exhibiting similar art. (Wp) Critics of the regime spoke of Malevich and his art with contempt stating that his work was a negation of everything good and pure, love of life and love of nature. Malevich responded that art can advance and develop for art's sake alone, saying, "art does not need us, and it never did," thus the premise for this video/installation piece.

BSI-10/Black Square TransFORMations ( "Black Square TransFORMations" ) This project is a video of kinetic forms within Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" zone. They are in keeping with some of his Suprematist forms that seem to float and simulate aerial views. Malevich states: "The square changes and creates new forms, the elements of which can be classified in one way or another depending upon the feeling which gave rise to them." Exhibition: "Black Square TransFORMations", "Black Square Interpretations and Other Suprematist Explorations" (two-person show with Max Semakov), CaviArt Gallery, Russian Cultural Center, Houston, Texas, March 6 - April 7, 2015. Stills from the video follow: