Blog post #2

This piece is untitled. It was made by Kazimir Malevich.

This is a oil painting on canvas. The first visual element I saw was line. There are a bunch of straight lines in many different directions forming shapes. The lines are implied by the shapes clumped together. It looks like the lines are rotating around the center of the painting. All the shapes are painted to be 2-D with no implied depth. Every shape is geometric, there are no curved lines or shapes. Just as the lines rotate around the center, so do the shapes. There is a lot of negative space near the edges of the canvas. Most of the positive space is centered on the painting. The artist used primary and tertiary colors along with black and grey. The artist kept similar colors near each other in the array of shapes. The texture on this shape is implied. Some shapes look like they are rough while others appear to be smooth. To sum up how this painting looks, it is made up of different wide polygon shapes with one triangle in a variety of primary and tertiary colors. There is a big polygon in the center and the shapes around it connect perfectly along their edges and the other shapes are rotating around it as if the middle shape was pulling the others in. All the shapes are neat and organized on the painting, the shapes never overlap. The center clump has more cool and earthy colors while the shapes on the outside are warm colors. The center looks like a polygonal earth and I see it as showing how people think everything revolves around us.