至上主义宣言(一)

Suprematist Manifesto

俄国艺术家卡济米尔·马列维奇创立的至上主义在20世纪初的欧洲先锋派运动中占有重要地位,其于1915年发表的《至上主义宣言》提出并阐述了作为一种"新文化开端"的至上主义艺术风格。宣言批判了自然主义、唯美主义与学院派写实风格对现实事物的模仿与再现,主张相较立体主义与未来主义更为单纯和理性的几何式抽象绘画。基于对纯粹色彩与形式的追求,马列维奇强调艺术家的个人意识在自由艺术创作中的重要性,对整个20世纪抽象艺术和构成主义的发展起到深远影响。本文分多次连载,此为第一部分。

Suprematism, initiated by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, played an important role in the European avant-garde movement in the early twentieth century. The Suprematist Manifesto was published in 1915, in which the suprematist art style was presented and elaborated as a ＂beginning of the new culture＂. In this manifesto Malevich criticizes naturalism, aestheticism and academic realism for their imitation and reproduction of the objects in reality and advocates a purer and more rational kind of geometric abstract painting, compared to cubism and futurism. Based on the pursuit of pure color and form, Malevich emphasizes the importance of the artist’s personal consciousness and freedom in artistic creation, which exerted a profound impact on the development of abstract art and constructivism in the entire twentieth century.