Russian Art
Malevich, K. S.
"Female Portrait". 1928 ca.
Notes: Female Portrait
Malevich returned to figurative painting in the late 1920s, motivated in part perhaps by the desire to synthesize the ideas that he had developed in his most experimental work with the Realist trend promoted by the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR). The AKhRR was founded in 1922 for the purpose of depicting the events, leaders of, and participants in the Revolution. Though these works may seem a retreat from the non-objective innovations of a decade before, they have a unique dignity, intelligence, and beauty that reflect Malevich's substantial gifts as a visual poet.
