Still or Stijl?
Poll Still or Stijl?"No more 'likenesses of reality,' no idealistic images, nothing but a desert! But this desert is filled with the spirit of nonobjective sensation which pervades everything.
"Even I was gripped by a kind of timidity bordering on fear when it came to leaving 'the world of will and idea,' in which I had lived and worked and in the reality of which I had believed . . . this was no 'empty square' which I had exhibited but rather the feeling of nonobjectivity." [Kasimir Malevich, "Suprematism"]
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"The angles naturally generated by the cube and its parts can be seen as the first principles in the more complex mathematics that served to generate Malevich's system of 'Suprematism,' as he called it, in which geometry forms the logical basis for a wholly abstract art. What was the ideological content of Suprematism? Milner rightly devotes much attention to the futurist opera Victory over the Sun (with a microtonal score by Matyushin, now lost) for which Malevich devised costumes and sets in 1913. The designer wrote to the composer, 'The decoration shows a black square, the embryo of all possibilities, which in the course of its development acquired a terrible power.' Black squares play only a small part in the surviving designs, but in the context of the opera it is clear that the black square was connected to the 'conquest' and 'imprisonment' of the sun, the sun and its courses symbolizing the repetitiousness of everyday reality, its eclipse the liberation of mankind into a new world of unfettered creativity. A 'new world' of a kind imposed itself on Russia in 1917." [Richard M Price, review of Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry (British Journal of Aesthetics, Oct 1998)]
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"It is not a painting. It is something else." Still or stijl?