Murder in Mesopotamia

It's been a while, so here is a couple very different paintings by the same artist, Kazimir Malevich. The first is a cubist painting - my understanding of cubism thus far is that it takes an object or scene, breaks it up into geometric shapes, and uses these shapes to represent the object from several different angles:

Bureau and Room (1913):



The second, which is the one that I was really looking for (but decided to post the first also, just as a contrast), is a monochrome painting. Monochrome is interesting, because it was so short lived (obviously there is only so much you can say with a lack of colour), and because it is both completely interpretative and completely non interpretative at the same time - that is to say, it's an almost blank canvas which almost any meaning can be projected onto, and at the same time nothing can be suggested by it.

White on White (1918):



It's also interesting that, while Bureau and Room seems to have so much more going on in it, White on White is the later painting, and is therefore something that Malevich has worked towards.

Personally I think I prefer looking at Bureau and Room; it's very striking. But White on White is very relaxing, and stylistically interesting.

Anyway, Heather needs to get one with some work, so I'm sure that's enough blundering around for one evening.

Goodnight.