Kazimir Malevich: "Airplane flying" from 1915

"Airplane flying" Kazimir Malevich (1915)
(Picture I)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Now seems to be the week, when I'm thinking about modern abstract art and one of the most respected masters of that style. The painting is named as "Airplane Flying", and one of the most famous avantgardists genius named Kazimir Malevich created this painting in 1915, and it has many persons, who don't see anything in this painting, what is one of the symbols of the abstract art, and in fact, there are many things, what people don't know about abstract art. The thing in this art is that those things, what do not seem to portray anything, are on the canvas or paper in very special formation, and in some abstract paintings is the idea in somewhere else than in the objects, what is painted on this picture.

The idea of the modern is might be that those geometrical forms are seeming to fly in the painting, and in some of those pictures the parts, what is missing has the importance. The idea of modern art or non-portraying art is that brains will fill the images by using the elements, what they would find from the memory. And that's why the only importance of this kind of art is, that the observers own experience would modify the way, how the person sees this painting. What would you think, that is hidden in this particular image, what is above the text?

Here we must ask, where Malevich saw an airplane in that work? When we suddenly see that painting, there is nothing. But when we are looking at this picture closer, we might see the very common form in it. That form is very well known from many movies, and it is near one very famous shape, what we can almost sure recognize as one of the most well-known firearms, and here I'm thinking about one thing, what can be possible. That is maybe Malevich played with the people's opinions and attitudes and thought that nobody dares, to say that there is a firearm hidden in that picture.

The thing is, that the group of boxes, what are painted as yellow, are making the formation, what seems like MAC-10/11 sub-machine gun with the silencer. So here I must ask one question: is MAC-10 engineered in Russia? You might yourself google the MAC-10 and compare it with the form of the yellow squares, and then you might find similarities with that form. Or have the engineer of MAC-10 got the influence about this painting? This is the question without an answer. But we must say, that the innovation process can happen spontaneously. And it means that the person can make production without willing to do that.

Sources:

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-malevich-kasimir-artworks.htm

Link to MAC-10/11

http://rainbowsix.wikia.com/wiki/MAC-11

Black Square by Kazimir Malevich from 1915

"Black Square"
Kazimir Malevich 1915
(PIcture I)

One of the most well-known avant-garde masterpieces is "Black Square", what is painted by Kazimir Malevich, and the year was 1915. This painting has caused the joke, where one man tells to another, how to create millions of dollars. The answer is simple, just paint a black square on the paper, and the masterpiece is done. But in the Malevich case, the idea of the "Black Square" painting is that it's not actually portraying black square at all. Or here I'm trying to say, that this square is not actually totally black. There is a form of the cross hiding in the grey or brighter points, what Malevich created in the area of the black square, what actually looks like the burned, or formed by burned paper, what is put inside the layers of varnish. But as we know, Malevich claimed, that he painted that painting. Or actually, people say, that this painting has been painted by Malevich, and I don't know, what techniques he used while he have made this painting.

The painting is very expensive, and it's claimed to be a masterpiece of the Russian avant-garde. But when we are starting to think about this painting, we must think, that Kazimir Malevich was the good painter. He made excellently but at the same time very radical painter, whose ideas are not seen very clearly by the audience, who don't ever seen the paintings, what this man, who shows excellent way to make his forms have been painted. And in this might be the very important thing in the art, what seems to be shown anything, but those forms are in the tape are painted very clear and sharp, and this thing tells, that they are made on purpose.


When I'm thinking about "Black square" I must think, that could Malevich try to make the surface, what could be so dark, that there would be no reflection, and that means that this kind of painting could be  dangerous, because if there is no reflection, the painting could start to burn. The rising temperature, what causes because electromagnetic radiation would be stored in that surface, and the rising temperature will make the painting burn. Also if in the colors would have iron crystals, the rounding electromagnetic field could cause that the iron bites start to create heat, and maybe that is the reason, why Malevich painted that cross the area, what is painted black. But who knows, what Malevich has been thought when he painted this kind of paintings. And was this artist realized, what he has been done.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_(painting)