A DECONSTRUCTION. Ground Works
work done in YEAR 1, AY 17/18
This exercise was to help inspire us for 'Project 1', where our proposed house design was to be based off a
particular artist's works or methods.
KAZIMIR MALEVICH
A Russian painter and art theoretician. A pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde
Suprematist movement. Malevich uses a white canvas background for his works. To him, the white background
symbolises infinity and gives a sense of the unknown that allows viewers to have endless perceptions of the
artwork in front of them as nothing is fixed.
some of Malevich's works include...
Airplane Flying (1915), Black Square(1915), Suprematist Composition (1916)
Fig1. Wikimedia Commons, (n.d.) File:Suprematist Composition - Airplane Flying (Malevich, 1915).jpg [online]. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suprematist_Composition_-_Airplane_Flying_(Malevich,_1915).jpg [Accessed on 19 Feb 2018].
Fig2. Wikipedia, (n.d.) Suprematist Composition [online]. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprematist_Composition [Accessed 19 Feb 2018].
Fig3. Shaw, Tate Research Publication, 2013, Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square [online]. Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-pub
lications/the-sublime/philip-shaw-kasimir-malevichs-black-square-r1141459 [Accessed on 19 Feb 2018].
These models are my interpretations on the artist's technique into a physical model.
Egoistic Model
A prominent direction due to the 2 lines that act as an axis.
Alter-Ego Model
If there's no fixed direction in the work that Malevich does.