Description
In 1912, Kazimir Malevich gave life to a work that, although it could be considered a "study", has a complexity and depth that transcends the connotations associated with mere preparation. "Study for a farmer's portrait" is a window in the style and thought of the artist during one of the most evolutionary periods of his career. This work reflects the intersection between Cubism and Futurism, while anticipating the imminent development of suprematism, movement of which Malevich would be an indisputable founder.
When observing the painting, we face a stylized figure; A peasant whose anatomy and proportions are distorted on purpose. This choice is not arbitrary; It responds rather to an interest in decomposing reality in geometric shapes and flat surfaces that invite the viewer to reconsider the human figure in more abstract terms. The square shoulders and the oval head of the peasant are combined in such a way that they seem to overlap in a space that defies the laws of the traditional perspective.
The colors used in this work are both vibrant and strategically arranged. Malevich uses a visual palette that emphasizes warm and terrible tones, such as brown and ocher, which complement each other with touches of blue and green. These colors are intertwined in stripes and blocks that, although they follow some logic of spatial construction, they also play with the planarity and blurring of three -dimensionality. It is in this sense that the painting It becomes a testimony painted of its intellectual and aesthetic concerns of those years.
It is impossible to ignore the influence of French Cubism in this work. In his attempt to break down reality in its essential components, Malevich follows the steps of artists such as Picasso and Braque. However, there is a crucial difference: while Cubism seeks to offer multiple simultaneous perspectives, Malevich works more in terms of a total collapse of three -dimensionality. This is reflected in the forms that seem both to be part of the peasant and the space that surrounds it, indicating a fusion between figure and background that foreshadows its subsequent jump to suprematism.
The peasant here portrayed is not registered in a work or daily narrative; On the other hand, it is a symbol of humanity itself stripped of its particularities and reduced to its most essential elements. This anonymity could be interpreted as a comment on the universality of human experience, as well as a reflection on the social conditions of the pre-refolutionary Russia.
"Study for a farmer's portrait" is, in summary, a paradigmatic example of Kazimir Malevich's stylistic transition. Through this painting, Malevich questions not only artistic representation but also the structures that condition our perception of reality. This study is, therefore, an invitation to contemplate beyond the surface, to see the world through the transforming lens of abstraction and geometry, elements that would become the basis of their famous supreme work.
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