Description
The canvas entitled "Safe" (1929) by Kazimir Malevich, deserves a deep contemplation, not only for the complexity of its creation, but also by the artistic crossroads in which its author has been during this period. In this work, Malevich plasma a central figure, a robust reaper that is imposed on the canvas with power and dynamism.
The figure of the reaper is approached from a front angle, in an upright position and with a face devoid of facial details, a characteristic feature of the mature style of Malevich. Dressed in a shirt and pants with extended arms and legs, the body of the reaper works in contrast to geometric simplicity and the economy of details. The posture of the reaper seems static, but its work tool, the scythe, suggests the latent action and the eternal struggle of man with the earth and its cyclical nature.
The colors in "reaper" are a fundamental component for the visual and emotional impact of the work. Malevich uses earth tones, particularly between brown and green, which evoke the agricultural landscape and rural life that surrounds the main character. This use of color not only supports the represented theme, but also harmonizes with the sober and controlled palette, revealing the return of Malevich to certain post-suprematistic neoclassical elements, in which a greater figuration makes its reappearance after its most abstract period.
The composition is relatively simple but powerfully effective. The fund is almost non -existent, reducing any distraction of the main subject. The reaper is erected as well as a symbol of the Russian peasant worker, at a time when socialism defended these values hard. However, despite this obvious symbolism, Malevich does not completely depart from its suprematist legacy. The color planes and the underlying geometric structure suggest a continuation of their fascination for the purely abstract, demonstrating a unique synthesis between the figurative and the abstract.
Throughout his career, Kazimir Malevich was a tireless innovative, a visionary who founded suprematism and deeply altered the course of modern art. "Resector" (1929) is located in the late stage of his work, where the author, having explored the extreme possibilities of abstraction, offered a personal interpretation of the human figure and his daily work. This work, together with other of its last years, reflects a kind of "return to order", a process that is not a mere regression, but rather an evolution that fuses its suprematist experiential with a renewed desire for figurative and symbolic representation .
In sum, "reaper" is a reminiscence of the cultural and political history of the time, while a testament of the mastery and artistic evolution of Kazimir Malevich. It is a work that transcends the merely visual to become a living archive of personal and social meanings, struggles and transformations, all condensed in the monumental figure of the reaper.
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