"The representation of an object, in itself, is something that has nothing to do with art," claims Malevitch. In abstract art, there is no more representation of an object and also there is not even the conception, like there was in cubism. The object completely disappears. The abstraction of Kandinsky, Malevitch and Mondrian is complete, which would have been unimaginable a few decades before. They created something completely new.
At the first sight, their work may seem to be meaningless. But, the fact is that their paintings are not just about forms and colours. There is a theory beyond their work. They are both painters and philosophers. Before, there were academic painters who created technical miracles, but with abstraction, a global thought on the art appeared in the world. So, what are the reasons for such a radical approach to art? What are they searching through geometrical forms and colours? Bringing a change in the way of doing art, Kandinsky, Malevitch and Mondrian want to rediscover notions such as emotion, purity, nature that have been forgotten by representation.
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