Description
Kazimir Malevich, an outstanding precursor of suprematism, is an essential figure in the history of modern art. His work "Cortation" (1912) offers a window to the period of stylistic evolution that precedes its radical explorations in geometric abstraction. This painting presents a remarkable composition for its integration of shapes and colors, serving as a testimony of Malevich's artistic transition from realism to abstraction.
In "Cortation", we observe a peasant pushing a manual reaper, a common scene of the Russian field, transformed by the uniqueness of Malevich's vision. The figure of the cut, robust and simple, is integrated into a fragmented and distorted landscape. The character stands out for his bulky, remarked by angular and flat lines, almost mechanical, which describe both the man and the machine he manages. This style of representation reveals a clear influence of Cubism, movement that Malevich studied and briefly adopted before developing his own artistic language.
The colored palette is rich and vibrant, highlighting the earthly tones of the soil and the costume of the peasant. Through large stains of red, yellow and blue, the work conveys a feeling of dynamism and energy, underlining the vitality of peasant work. These colors not only define the shapes, but also provide an emotional dimension to the painting, imbuing it from a visual vitality that transcends its thematic simplicity.
Entreated strokes and color areas suggest a visual rhythm that guides the viewer through the composition. This fragmentary treatment of pictorial space, where the elements seem to overlap and merge, reflects the influence of the Cubism of Picasso and Braque. However, Malevich also introduces a personal rigor in the simplification and geometrization of forms, which preludes their future suprematist works.
A significant aspect of "corteped" is the way Malevich begins to decompose the human figure and its environment in constitutive parts, an exercise that will later culminate in its supreme masterpiece, "Black Square" (1915). In "corteped", although the forms are still recognizable, the tendency towards the reduction of the figure to basic geometric elements is already noticeable.
In conclusion, "corteped" is more than a look at rural life; It is a deep study of how shape and color can be reconfigured to communicate beyond mere realism. Through this work, Kazimir Malevich invites us to explore the intersection of the form and function, and to appreciate his early dominance of visual language that would later challenge the artistic conventions of his time. This painting occupies a crucial place in Malevich's trajectory by pointing out its route to an art that seeks to capture the purity of perception through simplification and abstraction.
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