THE BLACK SQUARE

INTUITIVE FEELING DISCOVERED IN OBJECTS THE ENERGY OF DISSONANCE, A DISSONANCE OBTAINED FROM THE CONFRONTATION OF TWO CONSTRASTING FORMS

INTUITION IS A NEW REASON, CONSIOUSLY CREATING FORMS

THE SQUARE IS NOT A SUBCONSCIOUS FORM. IT IS THE CREATION OF INTUITIVE REASON. THE FACE OF NEW ART. THE SQUARE IS THE LIVING, REGAL INFANT. THE FIRST STEP OF PURE CREATION IN ART. BEFORE IT THERE WERE NAÏVE DISTORTIONS AND COPIES OF NATURE.

I can understand, respect and even relate to the ideas of the Suprematists, yet I can not say that Michelangelo, DaVinci, Rembrandt, etc. were not genius artists and did not create beautiful things. I am torn between my total understanding and acceptance of the Suprematist’s ideals and goals, and my other understanding and tendencies towards more humanist architecture/art. The notion of pure, instinctive design, that is released from most ties of the natural world is very alluring. Though ultimately rejecting communism, some communist ideas are present in their thoughts on creativity being universal and something to be experienced by all. The destruction of reality and need to move out of the material world is reminiscent of the transcendentalism of Thoreau, which I assume they were aware of due to their quotations of Walt Whitman. The Suprematists moved past the cubists and futurists with their use of color, understanding if scale, and abstraction to create “form out of nothing.”