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Russian painter, Kasimir Malevitch (1878-1935) is considered one of the most emblematic artists of abstract art.

Born in Kiev, the artist moved to Moscow in 1904. He first worked as an industrial designer before studying drawing and attending the Kiev School of Painting at the age of 17.

Malevich was finally a self-taught artist who tried out several artistic styles at the beginning of his career. His first paintings, figurative, are impressionist and expressionist.

From 1915 on, Malevich's artistic and plastic concerns evolved. More and more opposed to traditional and academic art, the artist chose to reject figuration in favor of a world without objects.

Thus, Malevich increasingly radicalized his compositions, which were henceforth intended to be abstract. He presented for the first time at the 0.10 Exhibition in Petrograd a group of 39 works that he called "Supremacies".