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Probably each of us knows at least one such strange and a very expensive picture – “Black Square” by K. Malevich. We clarify that Kazimir Severinovich painted this canvas in 1915 at the request of colleagues – for an exhibition of futurists. Then this picture was even called otherwise, the “Black Quadrangle”. It’s hard to say, like under the impact of which Malevich found this strange “plot”, but the picture for some reason it was such a tremendous success that the artist repeated at least three times their “masterpiece” (stored in the Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery and Russian Museum). Moreover, later he will say reporters that he painted under the influence of “space consciousness, “although experts have recently deciphered the name “Black Square”, originally given and written in the picture itself author (Malevich had a very illegible handwriting) – “Battle blacks in a dark cave “, which is an” illusion “of the like the work of the artist Alfons Alle. And no space …
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However, the “black square” style has become popular among modern painters who are not without success practicing in such strange Canvases more and more. But this is not surprising, but the fact that such paintings are sold at auction for crazy money. We will not be here give a lot of examples, since black squares are priced for a million dollars and a little higher is relatively much, but there are also where more striking things, that is, “under-paintings,” as one called them of critics sold for tens of millions of dollars.
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Among them is the “masterpiece” of Saya Twombie “Untitled”, rated at auction of 69.6 million US dollars.
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Barnett Newman’s Black Fire painting auctioned for 84.2 million dollars.
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Canvas by Mark Rothko “Orange, Red, Yellow” – flew away with hammer for 86.9 million.
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The painting “The Light of Anna” is again Barnett Newman, bought for 105.7 million dollars.
It’s not surprising that some experts believe that modern society is just going crazy. And it’s not even that someone evaluates and buys these paintings for millions of dollars (this a kind of game elite collectors). Everything is much sadder: someone does not know where to put the money, but someone at the same time (millions of children in the world) starving to death …
And it’s okay, the matter concerned high art, otherwise … Interestingly, how do you feel about all this? ..
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