P. D. OUSPENSKY AND HIS THEORETICAL INFLUENCE IN THE SUPREMATIST WORK OF KAZIMIR MALEVICH

Abstract

The mathematical Piotr Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947) came into contact with the Theosophy in 1907, one of the main references of his philosophical and spiritual path, facilitating the writing of The Fourth Dimension (1909) and Tertium Organum (1911), publications that will serve as a conceptual reference for many intellectuals of that time and especially for Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist language. The connections between thought of Ouspensky and the Russian painter Malevich are palpable not only in the configuration of the fourth dimension, but in the next issues: an art that serves to reveal the unknown, the need to explain a new spiritual dimension under a new creative language, the struggle of opposites, the concept of flatness and representation of nothingness.