Kazimir Malevich on his Early Work

Below is an interesting quote from Kazimir Malevich on his earlier work. A member of the Futurist and Suprematism art movements, he was a champion of non-representational art, (images not depicting the natural world; or non-objective art) as not only a valid form of expression, but a dominant one. In his Futurist style he used many icons or images from his past and present. But he considered this style of Cubo-futurism to be too dependent on images of the natural world. He sought a more distinct and personal, universal clean kind of abstraction and thus was born his Suprematism style. A supreme form of abstraction; an attempt at avoiding completely any relation at all to anything else in the world.

"Nobody understood that an icon was a representation of an actual person, or that color was its medium of expression. I never made any association of ideas when I looked at these paintings, and they seemed to have nothing to do with me or my life."

-Kazimir Malevich (1878 -1935) quoted in: Malevich , Jośe Maria Faerna.

Malevich, Suprematism Two Dimensional Self Portrait 1915