In this quest, he was strongly influenced by the work of Kasimir Malevich (1878 - 1935), inventor of Suprematism,
whose Black Square (1915, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) inspired Reinhardt to create paintings devoted to a single colour.
Not exact matches
Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (
black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length
black lace dress by Lover,
whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant
square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)
He is also a poet
whose most recent publications are Book Left Open in the Rain (
Black Square Editions / The Brooklyn Rail, 2009) and 12 Abandoned Poems (Kilmog Press, 2010).
Reinhardt gradually reorganized, and finally reduced — darkened color to a unified chromatic range, which he subdivided into a
square format of matte
black squares,
whose actual «lights» varied chromatically between red, blue, and green.
Maurer,
whose work has finally received the deserved attention of the international art world was included in the recent exhibition Adventures of the
Black Square at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and her 2014/2015 retrospective at Museum Ritter has highlighted the diversity of her highly regarded oeuvre.
The list of artists, from Anni and Josef Albers to Heimo Zobernig,
whose works are included in Adventures of the
Black Square, is enough to tell you that the exhibition promises great things.
The writer and art historian W.J.T. Mitchell claimed that Charles Altieri once wrote 75 pages on Malevich's «Suprematist Composition: Red
Square and Black Square,» a work whose title is description enough for most people (spoiler: the red square is ti
Square and
Black Square,» a work whose title is description enough for most people (spoiler: the red square is ti
Square,» a work
whose title is description enough for most people (spoiler: the red
square is ti
square is tilted).
He is also a poet
whose most recent book is Trembling Hand Equilibrium (
Black Square Editions, 2015).
When Kazimir Malevich painted
Black Square (1915),
whose title perfectly explains what it is, painting was pushed further into abstraction than it ever was before.
One beauty is «Cameo,» a field of colorful, upward - drifting strokes
whose title may refer to the single
black square in the upper right.
Mordor's own flag is a composite of a National Socialist white circle against a red background, with at its centre a Malevich - inspired
black square from
whose corners sprout colourful Smithson-esque scrolls.
Her previous exhibitions featured low, largely symmetrical iridescent
black or colored wall reliefs — round, ovoid, and
square —
whose subtle surface modulations suggested labia, the glyphs of Asian signature seals, or topographic models of old, eroded hills.
What about the nasty
black Trafalgar
Square Lion sitting under the table,
whose rear end is extruded into a tangle of branches and twigs?
For this show, however, he has also created sculptures that include delaminated OLED screens playing illustrations the artist creates algorithmically (a maze, for example, morphs into a tree - like form), and a Light and Space - inspired installation
whose black scrims make you feel as if you've stepped into a single
square inch of one of Zheng's paintings.
His work /, \, \, / (the Final Cut) is a wall - mounted
square whose straight edges have been oriented 45 degrees to the ground; as such it is similar to Ivan Kliun's untitled
black square from 1917, except that Zucconi's piece, rather than absorb light, is made of mirror wrapped in a glossy poster for the science fiction movie Blade Runner.
The show includes a wood panel covered with
black cedar shingles by Aaron Aujla (b. 1986); a vertical monochrome
whose surface is marked by circular holes, which turn out to be the insides of plastic caps for cans of spray paint, by Dylan Bailey (1985); and a ghostly
square monochrome
whose surface is made from horizontal rows of strapping tape, translucent but reinforced with white string, by Chris Duncan (b. 1974).
Like Ad Reinhardt,
whose black paintings with their
square rectangles he obviously knew well, Andre seems to have concluded that the Western obsession with novelty and innovation, especially technical innovation, was not an indication of progress.