Malevich Kazimir Severinovich (1878-1935), Soviet artist. At the turn of the 1900s and 1910s, he sought to combine the principles of cubism and futurism. Then becoming one of the founders of abstract art, vaguely mystically interpreting his experiments, M. reduced the subject form to combinations of the simplest geometric elements scattered on the plane contrasting in color (suprematism). This from the very beginning led to the denial of the social and cognitive tasks of artistic creativity and painting itself. Volume 4. Treatises and lectures of the first half of the 1920s. With the attachment of the correspondence of K.S. Malevich and El Lissitzky (1922-1925)