Blue Square
Works in Jan’s Totems series present icons, objects, and scenes as metaphors for reflection on current events and themes relevant to contemporary living, and his Colorfields are richly-saturated abstract-expressions that characterize his emotional response to events going on around him in the contemporary world.
Blue Square is a reference and homage to Kasimir Malevich’s seminal 1915 painting Black Square, whereby he and other members of the Russian revolutionary ‘vanguard’ proclaimed a new era of art and a new ‘year zero,’ distinguishing their era from what had come before, and moving forward with new social and aesthetic purpose.
Works in Jan’s Totems series present icons, objects, and scenes as metaphors for reflection on current events and themes relevant to contemporary living, and his Colorfields are richly-saturated abstract-expressions that characterize his emotional response to events going on around him in the contemporary world.
Blue Square is a reference and homage to Kasimir Malevich’s seminal 1915 painting Black Square, whereby he and other members of the Russian revolutionary ‘vanguard’ proclaimed a new era of art and a new ‘year zero,’ distinguishing their era from what had come before, and moving forward with new social and aesthetic purpose.
Works in Jan’s Totems series present icons, objects, and scenes as metaphors for reflection on current events and themes relevant to contemporary living, and his Colorfields are richly-saturated abstract-expressions that characterize his emotional response to events going on around him in the contemporary world.
Blue Square is a reference and homage to Kasimir Malevich’s seminal 1915 painting Black Square, whereby he and other members of the Russian revolutionary ‘vanguard’ proclaimed a new era of art and a new ‘year zero,’ distinguishing their era from what had come before, and moving forward with new social and aesthetic purpose.
oil & acrylic on canvas
105cm x 68cm x 4cm
executed in 2014 🔴