By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times
Recently, a monument to Kazimir Malevich, Russian painter and designer, has been unveiled in the city of Konotop, Sumy region. Also, Konotop devotees of Kazimir Malevich plan to open a fan club in the near future. He lived in this city with his parents in 1894-1895 and sold his first paintings Moon Night and Stork for five rubles each.
The Russian avant-gardist influenced greatly art and design. Kazimir Malevich discovered Cubism on a trip to Paris in 1912 and returned to lead the Russian Cubist movement. In 1915 he exhibited paintings more abstractly geometrical than any seen before, consisting of simple geometrical forms painted in a limited palette, a style he called Suprematism. In 1917-1918 he created his well-known White on White series, austere images of a white square floating on a white background.
In 1919 he joined Marc Chagall at his revolutionary school in Vitebsk, where he exerted a strong influence on El Lissitzky. In the 1920s Kazimir Malevich returned to representational painting.
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