I’m not a very artsy person, but I don’t see any real symbolism behind the black square. It’s just a black square. Even if there is meaning, why is it known as an Avant Garde? Surely something impactful deserves the title, and this is literally a black square; I know everything can be art but does a black square deserve to be an Avant Garde?
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ok so just in general its almost impossible to convey the context and culture in which the paintings were made so anyone’s understanding today is gonna be pretty surface level but i did go to art school and learn about this stuff so – the black square and all the other russian suprematist’s pieces of the time are basic and fundamental visual art, they are intentionally limited and unassuming, they are not meant to depict anything. you look at it and say “it’s just a black square” and it is. At the time (these guys were born in the 1800s) this was a “new or experimental idea” so yes to those classifying it, it is avant garde even though anyone could easily recreate it on their phone in seconds.
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