malevich head of a peasant c1928 Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)

Description of the painting "Peasant’s Head" by Kazimir Malevich

The liveliness of Genius, the most enigmatic artist of our time and a mystifier by nature, allowed him to reach an artistic peak that art experts still cannot understand where is truth and where is fiction and rumor in his biography. But that doesn’t matter anymore.

As a child, he already in his teens loved painting, and after he went to art school. After its completion, the family moved to Kursk, where the young man had already tried to find himself, working in the civil service, however, after a while left this activity for the sake of devoting his life to painting.

Casimir developed subjects and themes, using illogism and very clever realism. He used the irrationality of images as a tool to disrupt classical art. His paintings are built on a shocking amalgamation of various lumpy elements, which he puts together in a single composition, filled with a peculiar meaningfulness that humiliates by its incomprehensibility the ordinary interpretation of paintings.

"Peasant’s Head" is a sketch for Malevich’s grandiose work "Peasant Funeral", which has not yet been found. It is either lost or destroyed by someone.

In this picture the artist, who began to write in the supranaturalistic genre, appeared the horizon, as the author himself said. The whole space has acquired a volume and now you can guess where the fields are and where the people working on them are.

This painting takes on an authentic meaning thanks to the eyes, because the rest of the shapes are irreal resembling humans. The exterior is rectangular and resembles a chessboard with multicolored divisions into several parts. The nose is only present on one side. But if you look at the picture as a whole, you can see a tired peasant on the background of the field and rural works. It may also be noted that this work reflects a peculiar tradition of Russian icon painting.