Suprematist works by Malevich.

Why a Black Square is Art?

Regia Marinho
2 min readDec 28, 2021

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Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual… artworks that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

The Malevich Black Square painting brings emotion and it has historical significance.

Black Square

Black Square. Malevich.

Painting by Kazimir Malevich.

Black Square is an iconic painting by Kazimir Malevich. The first version was done in 1915. Malevich made four pieces of the black square, of which the last is thought to have been painted during the late 1920s or early 1930s.

Black Square was first shown in The Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in 1915 in Petrograd, 1915.

The work is usually referred to by critics, historians, curators, and artists as the “zero point of painting”, referring to the painting’s historical significance and…

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