1931, Kasimir Malévitch, Sensation du danger (Sensation of Danger) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: In 1928, Malevich commenced a new series in which he transposed suprematist forms and colours in a figurative style.
In an almost abstract decor a man seems to run away from two windowless houses that no doubt symbolise Stalinist prisons. The blood-stained blade of the sword underscores the threat that the regime brought to bear equally on country persons and the artistic world. Thus Kazimir Malevich, who was himself interned in 1930, denounces the coercive policy that forced him to abandon Suprematism.
1931, Kasimir Malévitch, Sensation du danger (Sensation of Danger) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: In 1928, Malevich commenced a new series in which he transposed suprematist forms and colours in a figurative style.
In an almost abstract decor a man seems to run away from two windowless houses that no doubt symbolise Stalinist prisons. The blood-stained blade of the sword underscores the threat that the regime brought to bear equally on country persons and the artistic world. Thus Kazimir Malevich, who was himself interned in 1930, denounces the coercive policy that forced him to abandon Suprematism.