of course, minimalist art can indeed be entirely in the eye of the beholder, unless augmented by some explanation of the artist's intention. here is malevich: The black square on the white field was the first form in which nonobjective feeling came to be expressed. The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling. Yet the general public saw in the nonobjectivity of the representation the demise of art and failed to grasp the evident fact that feeling had here assumed external form. [1]
-rishab 1. http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/suprem.html On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:56:09AM +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote: > minimalism in visual art, can be often mistaken, for a smart con-job. > And particularly for the early modernist masters like Malevich, one > almost seems warranted to ask, "what's so great about that black > square on white background? Even I could do that on MS Paint?"
