Kazimir Malevich. Black square

In the history of world art there are sometimes unique milestones, which designate the turning points of the general movement. In this sense, pretty lucky to such an artist as Kazimir Malevich, "Black Square" which was just such a landmark work. For a number of historical and aesthetic circumstances, this strange work has been at the center of public attention for almost a century. It is curious also because the commentators provoked provocative meaning and content rather than Malevich himself. "Black Square" became a symbolic red rag in the hands of a bullfighter. But he does not tease bull in bullfight. He irritates the consciousness and aesthetic feelings of several generations of critics and ordinary inhabitants. They feel particularly severe aesthetic insult when they look at the figure, which experts of leading auction houses of the world designate the approximate value of this work of art.

"Malevich's black square. History of its creation

Petrograd artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich is not the only author of the picture, which later became so famous. It can be called without exaggeration the founder of a whole trend in Russian painting of the twentieth century. The direction was called "Suprematism", it was quite a logical stage of development of such a leading trend in the forefront, as Cubism. Kazimir Malevich posed a peculiar point in these formalistic searches. "Black Square" for many meant a dead end, beyond which it is impossible to move, and simply nowhere. According to the aptly and somewhat poisonous definition of one art critic, it became "the suicide of painting as an art." But the author himself did not even mean anything like that. And over his famous painting worked not for a few minutes, as one would have guessed, but several long months of 1915. According to one version, the painter intended to say and do something completely different. But it turned out that it turned out. And the success of the picture was albeit peculiar, but with the passage of time ever increasing. It can be called simply enchanting. The whole world is known today by the artist Malevich. "Black Square" is included in all the catalogs, textbooks and theoretical monographs on Russian and world modernism.

What is Malevich's "Black Square" famous for?

Very many people do not give rest to this question. Only by its absurdity? Is it only a prohibitive price? By no means. Many find in this work the deepest philosophical and religious meanings. The vision of the future and the forecast of the decline of human civilization on planet Earth. In this context, the Petrograd suprematist Kazimir Malevich grows up to the size of an apocalyptic prophet, explaining to everyone what lies ahead. But most of the common public "Black Square" just enrages: "Give me at least some of its price ... I'll buy a big brush, a bucket of liquid tar and draw a lot of black squares ..." Try to say that such an idea never came to you to the head.