#23096 Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)

Description of Kazimir Malevich’s painting Pesage

Believe it or not. But before you is a landscape. An amazing painting with amazing strokes of paint. It’s almost a dot set. An almost rainy palette sets against a yellow background. One can barely make out a house, trees, animals and people. One can interpret this canvas in different ways, and each time there will be a completely different palette. Or we can see the demonstrators during a festive demonstration. Or it seems to be a spring garden, after a cherry or an apple tree has blossomed. Then suddenly you realize that it’s probably still a cityscape. In this case too, the imagination is limitless.

It is not necessary to be too keen on the work of this artist, otherwise you can just slightly lose your mind. It will be a mass lesion of brain cells, if you try to get into a large album with reproductions of Malevich. And "Black Square" will seem like a child’s prank compared to other canvases that are similar to this painting as well. It’s just impossible to stare at the picture for a long time. Soon everything starts to look double and triple in your eyes and it becomes unclear what it’s all for. It worked. Amaze and make you doubt your fantasy? It worked, too. But then why was it created?

Although, in fact, of course it’s beautiful. Of course it’s genius. And all that makes a genius is not always clear at once. It takes time and needs apparently that very vision of things, which had Malevich, to finally declassify some of his paintings. But, alas, we are not given it, and the author has long been dead.

But it really is beautiful. And I want to believe that this is a spring landscape, which gives us a sense of joy and a kind of madness. Spring is always like this: then nothing, then suddenly - bam! - and here it is the beauty of love, which is not immediately satiated. That’s probably what "Landscape" is all about.