malevich170 Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)

Description of the painting "The Red House" by Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Malevich, for some reason it occurred to him to isolate the house into a separate solid painting. The goals are not very clear, but the artist knows best. Exactly the same house has already been encountered in paintings by Kazimir, such as A Difficult Premonition and The Running Man. Only in these paintings the house is in the background, in a reduced form. Here, however, it is the central "character."

An ordinary rectangle of bright red color, implying, apparently, bricks, covered with a black trapeze-roof. But, notice how much this roof looks like a coffin lid, except that the windows are drawn in! Of course, it’s not just because.

There’s not a soul around, the fields, the horizon, the space are lifeless, almost dead. And in the middle of this desolation a red (color of blood) house, covered with a black (color of death, mourning) "coffin lid. Isn’t this the symbol of human values corked up forever, of positive emotions immured, of feelings concreted in concrete?

Or maybe this building is the terrible and bloody KGB? It does not matter which one, on Moscow Lubyanka or Leningrad Liteiny or any other, the important thing is that this house - a symbol of endless agony and suffering, abandonment and loneliness, God - and misanthropy ...

And when you decipher this painting from this point of view, Malevich’s allocation of this image of fear and death in a separate picture becomes clear and justified. After all, the artist himself was repeatedly in this institution. Although he was luckier than many others: he was released after some time.

But according to the testimony of citizens who have been there, even the walls groan, and consequently, even a brief stay there was enough for the avant-garde artist to pour out all his fear and all his hatred on the canvas we see (and not only on it).