CHANGING MY FEELINGS
In 2010 I specifically went to Amsterdam to see « Matisse to Malevich, Pioneers of Modern Art at the Hermitage ». It was an amazing exhibition with Matisse, Picasso and Derain who received special attention, as did the Fauvists such as Van Dongen and De Vlaminck. The works go back to the Moscow collectors Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin. Two other artists featuring in the exhibition were Kandinsky and Malevich. As nearly all of the artists in question are meaningful for me and I follow around Europe, I was somewhat stunned when I came to the last room and fell upon this…. »The Black Square » Kazimir Malevich - 1932. There was nothing else..... The last version of the Black Square - 1932 It’s not often that I turn my back on a painting but this one made me fume. Since I have read a lot about this period in Malevich’s life. The Black Square was painted four times at different periods and in different sizes. Supposedly it is his most famous and emblematic work. I am not going to