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The Black Square

Kazimir Malevich

Black Square 1915

“The Black Square of Kazimir Malevich is one of the most famous creations of Russian art in the last century. The first Black Square was painted in 1915 to become the turning point in the development of Russian avant-garde.” (Compression may be required, http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/04/b2003/hm4_1_30.html, no date)

Black Square against white background became the symbol, the basic element in the system of the art of suprematism, the step into the new art. 

In my opinion the genius of "black square" is that it is perfectly even and geometric and uniformly black. Try to paint a black square on a piece of paper and it will not work. It will be uneven black, somewhere darker and somewhere lighter. Once upon a time, somewhere in physics book, I read that in the painting "Black Square" Malevich has achieved a perfect black. What is the perfect black? If you look at it through the special prism, you can see that "black" colour is presented with all colours of the rainbow. I also heard this version that the square is an only simple form which does not exist in the nature. Also, the black square gets better symbolic value based on my experiment. If u draw black square on a white surface, concentrate on the figure around 30 seconds and then look at the flat, light surface, then you will see an inversion. White square on a black background. The truth is in life there is no absolute black or absolute white, everything is interchangeable. In other hand, if you take the most primitive drawing, as this square, you can assign whatever deeper meaning, as our imagination is limitless. Probably only Malevich himself could tell the meaning of this painting, but he did not. He left if to our imagination.

Refference:

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/04/b2003/hm4_1_30.html (no date) (Accessed: 10 April, 2013)