Head

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

Mikhail Menkov passed a way from Cubo-futurism to Suprematism. He wrote about the “transformation in zero forms” and, following maestro Malewicz, explained in his treatises, “the art of repetition is peculiar to savages”. The evolution of any art should lead to “a new reality and higher forms – such forms, in which the real creator breaks up with the imitation of reality, reveals another, true reality, which obeys the Universal laws.” Moving along such a trend, Menkov experimented with color solutions, and in this picture was close to the style of expressionism with its unusual solutions in portrait genre.