Malevich: Thoughts about Monet

For most people, Monet had, when painting the cathedral, sought to render the lights and shadows on the walls. But they were wrong. In fact, all Monet's efforts had gone into the walls of the cathedral. His main task was not the shadows and the light, but the painting that lay in the shadow and the light... when the artist paints, and he plants the paint, and the object is his flower-bed, he must sow the paint in such a way that the object disappears, because it is merely a ground for the visible paint with which it is painted.

(Malevich - On New Systems in Art, Static, and Speed, 1919)

(Suprematism and Constructivism)

(Monet)