The mystery of the “Black Square” anticipated (Video) – Commander

The painting by Kazimir Malevich “Black Square” in 1915 painted on canvas, on which were previously written two paintings: first – kubofuturisticheskogo composition, then – another non-objective painting. “Times” was trying to understand what it means for the opening of the history of Russian art.

Experts of the Tretyakov Gallery found the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Black Square” in 1915 painted on canvas, which previously contained two images. In addition, art able to read the author’s inscription on the painting work.

«It is known that under the” Black Square “was some underlying image. We have found that such images are not one, but two.

The find was detected by X-rays. Two underlying image seen through a microscope in the cracks of the picture. According to the researcher of the department of scientific expertise of the Tretyakov Gallery, managed to decipher the phrase on the web – «Battle of Negroes in the dark cave» . Its author, scientists have recognized Malevich himself.
«Black Square” – the mythological work of art of the XX century. His interpretations are legion. Certainly one thing: the picture is perceived as an aesthetic manifesto of a generation of artists and as a symbol of the most important aesthetic era.

Malevich himself questions about the significance and meaning of the “square” in charge of what is called, evasively. He said he did not expect such an effect, and it is not clear understand that all this might mean.

Some researchers these words prompted the idea of ​​the supernatural, mystical origins of the scenic character.

However, it is believed that the first image appeared in a black square of Malevich in 1913, scenery designs for the Futurist opera staged by Mikhail and Alexey Kruchenykh Matyushina “Victory over the Sun”. In 1915 the square was presented as a finished art-piece in a number of other geometrical works, which, in general, marked the emergence of a new artistic direction – Suprematism.

The works were first published in the futuristic exhibition “0, 10″ which opened in St. Petersburg December 19, 1915.

Suprematist paintings of Malevich took there a separate room, and the “Black Square” hung in the so-called red corner – the location of the room, where Russian huts kept icons.