The principle of painting the walls 1920

Kazimir Malevich made "The principle of painting the walls" around 1919, and you can just imagine him working away with his paints. The red, yellow, black, and blue shapes make a daring statement on the white backdrop. I can almost feel Malevich pushing the boundaries of visual language, trying to find new ways to represent space and form. The red half circle at the bottom left could represent a setting sun or a building block. It feels very architectural, like a ground plan with elevations. Malevich, like many artists, builds on the ideas of his predecessors while blazing his own trail. He embraced abstraction, reducing forms to their bare essentials. Think about what it must have been like for him to make these kinds of creative decisions – very exciting, I think! Artists engage in a continuous dialogue across time, inspiring each other’s creativity. Painting is an expression that embraces ambiguity and uncertainty.