MALEVICH, Kazimir

Malevich came to Moscow in his late twenties, initially working as an Impressionist painter. Befriending political radicals in the pre-World War I decade, Malevich produced paintings depicting rural peasants in a deliberately primitive style. Working with flat planes of unmodulated color, Malevich called his art Cubo-Futurism. Changing his style again, he made Collages and juxtapositions of realistically rendered details in the manner of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque (1882–1963)...