>>62245257I mean I'm not saying it's a masterpiece or brilliant, I'm not going to hang it on my wall or really praise it much beyond the process that went into it. Yeah, it's a black fucking square, but it's the reasoning behind the black fucking square which imparts the message. It's easy to just write it off now when it's not relevant or meaningful to our sociopolitical climate, but this comes from a post-WWI era Russia just starting to really amp up its propaganda and this piece comes from that movement. All it did was take concepts and reduce or push them to the most basic, core, pure element at their heart. Logic and reason at its purest, devoid of emotion or depth or intent. Nothing more, nothing less, it's just a logical shape.
>>62245336This is just a swoosh but it still has a meaning and intent behind its design. It's perfectly healthy to not like it, I'm not saying I even particularly like it, but it's still got a meaning and the artist didn't just paint a square and sell it to a museum and collect a check.
>>62245392Or the canvas is a square because he wanted to paint a black square. Disagreement over its merit is great, but you dismiss the entire point.
>>62245378The context does add meaning to the piece though. The reason the Sistine Chapel is so impressive to non-scholars is because of the sheer logistics of it. Colossal, so much detail, immaculate technique, you don't need to know the meaning to appreciate the work that went into it. What I said earlier applies to Black Square, where you do need it explained to understand. There's a lot to the Sistine Chapel someone not versed in Catholicism wouldn't get, but also for someone not versed in architecture or art at the time. All I meant was Black Square was sincere, not that it had significant meaning.
