“Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him.”
― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
Forced to adapt, Malevich returned to his earlier style of depicting peasants and landscapes at a conventional Impressionist-like style. He died of cancer on May 15, 1935 in Leningrad, Soviet Union at age 57. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Albertina in Vienna, among others.
“Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without "things" (that is, the "time-tested well-spring of life").”
― Kasimir Malevich
