马列维奇是20世纪初现代艺术革命大潮中的急先锋,一位伟大的艺术家。他生活在充满革命激情和动荡不定的革命和战争时代,他的艺术人生也随之大起大落,极富戏剧性。甚至在他去世之后仍然经历了在自己的祖国被打入冷官、被解禁直至重获极高评价,被视为国宝艺术大师的过程。而在西方艺术界,马列维奇却始终拥有崇高的历史地位。近年来俄罗斯在西欧和美国等地为马列维奇举办了一连串的大型回顾展,展览受到观众的热烈欢迎,这使得艺术家在去世半个多世纪后重新成为受到特别关注的现代艺术大师,然而首次接触到马列维奇晚期作品的西方观众惊奇的发现,与以往人们对他的认识不同,晚年的马列维奇已经告别至上主义,回归具象绘画,探索绘画继续存在和发展的新路。本期李力先生的文章为我们较详细地介绍了在一个世纪的历史中沉浮上下的马列维奇。日裔美国画家国吉康雄是最早在美国获得很高评价的日裔艺术家,又是20世纪初美国最早接受现代主义美术影响并在本土现代艺术探索中取得极大成就的美国艺术家。王志惠的文章对这位身份特殊、地位重要的艺术家及其创作作了生动的介绍。 Malevich is a vanguard, a great artist in the twentieth century, the tide of modern art revolution. He lived in an era of revolution and war full of revolutionary passion and turmoil. His artistic life also went up and down dramatically. Even after his death, he still went through the process of being punched in his native country and lifted until he regained a high rating and was regarded as a master of national treasures. However, in the western art world, Mlebovic always has a lofty historical position. In recent years, Russia has held a series of large-scale retrospectives for Malevich in western Europe and the United States. The exhibition was warmly welcomed by the audience, which made the artist regain the special attention of modern masters more than half a century after his death. However, Surprised by Western audiences who came into contact with the latest works by Malikovich, unlike previous people’s understanding of him, Malikovich in his later years has already farewell to supremacist, returned to figurative painting, and explored a new path for painting’s continued existence and development. This issue of Li Li’s article gives us a more detailed introduction of the Mileavi ups and downs in the history of a century. Japanese-American painter Kunihiro Kudos is the first Japanese-American artist to receive a very high opinion in the United States and the first American artist to accept the influence of modern art in the early 20th century and make great achievements in the exploration of local modern art. Wang Zhihui’s article gives a vivid introduction to this special status and important artist and his creation.