THE ATLAS OF THE UNPAINTABLE
Kazimir Malevich
Malevich
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Painted Black Square and, at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd in 1915, hung it across the upper corner of the room — the krasny ugol, the place a Russian house keeps for its icon.
⭐⭐⭐ THE MOST APOPHATIC GESTURE IN MODERN ART, AND IT IS A PLACEMENT RATHER THAN A PAINTING. He did not paint a God; he put an absence where the face of God goes, in the position that makes the absence unmistakable. Fludd got to the square three hundred years earlier; Malevich got to the corner.
⭐⭐⭐ THE MOST APOPHATIC GESTURE IN MODERN ART, AND IT IS A PLACEMENT RATHER THAN A PAINTING. He did not paint a God; he put an absence where the face of God goes, in the position that makes the absence unmistakable. Fludd got to the square three hundred years earlier; Malevich got to the corner.
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sephirahketer
whyKeter is what cannot be looked at. He hung it at eye height in the corner and made everyone look.
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Black Square, 1915Wikimedia Commons · public domain
Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918Wikimedia Commons · public domain
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