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Wooden puzzle "Flower Girl. Kazimir Malevich" from Ukrainian Puzzles
Number of elements: 300
Puzzle size: 360 x 320 mm
Box size: 290×160×55 mm
Material: wood (HDF)
Kazimir Malevich (February 23, 1879 - May 15, 1935) is a Ukrainian artist, one of the most revolutionary figures in world art of the 20th century, the founder of Suprematism. He was born in Kyiv to a Polish-Belarusian family. According to Malevich's autobiography, his conscious development as an artist, as well as sources of inspiration, are inextricably linked with Ukrainian folk art, especially with icons, house paintings, and embroidery. He began his studies as an artist at the Kyiv Drawing School, where he was a student of Mykola Pymonenko. The painting "Flower Girl", reproduced in this puzzle, is a tribute to the painting “The Kiev Flower Girl” by Pymonenko. Malevich, due to family circumstances, was forced to interrupt his studies in Kiev and move to Kursk, and later to Moscow. In 1915, Malevich made an artistic revolution by presenting to the world the painting “Black Square” — a manifesto of Suprematism (from the Latin supremus — the highest), which expressed absolute abstraction, the rejection of objectivity. Malevich hung “Black Square” in the corner — where icons hang in Ukrainian houses.
In 1927, Malevich, already world-famous, returned to Kiev, taught at the Kiev Art Institute, published articles in Ukrainian in art magazines, and actively created. The works of that period with faceless and armless figures reflect the tragedy of forced collectivization and a premonition of the Holodomor. Repressions did not pass by and Malevich. In 1930 he was summoned for questioning in Leningrad, arrested for three months, and subjected to torture, including having water injected into his urethra. This caused Malevich to develop a disease that later developed into oncology. Even after his release from arrest, Malevich was forbidden to leave the Leningrad region. He was never able to return to Ukraine. Malevich died in 1935. He was buried in a Suprematist coffin that the artist himself designed. He also bequeathed an architecton to be built on his grave - a tall Suprematist structure with a telescope on top so that everyone could look at the sky, but the will was not carried out. Malevich's grave was razed to the ground. At first there was a collective farm field, and now a residential complex has been built over the burial site.
Despite the fact that several countries call Malevich their artist, it is worth noting that in his own autobiography he called himself as Ukrainian, and also entered his nationality as Ukrainian in the questionnaires during interrogations. Due to the long-standing dominance of the Russian/Soviet narrative in the world regarding Eastern Europe, Kazimir Malevich was overwhelmingly called a Russian artist. A few museums are only now starting to correct this error. For example, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which has one of the most complete collections of Kazimir Malevich's works, now lists him as Ukrainian. There is still a long way to go to decolonize the discourse regarding Ukrainian artists and culture.