Self-Portrait
1911
Malevich was a massively prolific painter, whose various styles I tried, for fun, to capture in this post, and I think I've failed. Honestly I'm sure there must be some Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces of his out there that I haven't found, not to mention a slew of other styles that he worked in that I might be neglecting–oh well!
Anyway, Malevich created a style known as Suprematism, which is founded upon the idea of using basic geometric shapes as the focus of a painting. His masterpiece in the style can be seen below, Black Square, which also at one dark time hung above his deathbed (or, rather, a version of it did). He described the creation of the Black Square thusly: "I felt only night within me and it was then that I conceived the new art, which I called Suprematism."
Black Square
1923-1929
Knife Grinder (Principle of Flickering)
1913
Oak and Dryads
1908
The Female Bathers
1908
Suprematism (Supremus 58)
1916
Haymaking
1928
Cow and Violin
1913
Airplane Flying
1915
River in the Forest
1908
An Englishman in Moscow
1914
