Is there any skill in Malevich’s “Black Square”? Is there any talent? Is there a sense of beauty? No. There is a masterful advertising trick. There is a desire to “blow up”, to cause a scandal, to shock the viewer. From this point of view, Malevich is the same “artist” as Herostratus is an architect, and Chikatilo, excuse me, is a surgeon.
I can’t help but recall my favorite in terms of fooling idiots, Andy Warhol. He once called his studio and ordered a photographer to put a certain image on silk, after which he came and on the finished canvas … peed. The fabric with traces of Warhol’s urine was sold in New York for 10 million dollars! “Art connoisseurs” know what part Warhol took in the creation of this “masterpiece”, but they buy it up, literally tearing it out of each other’s hands!
The dealers who collect obvious trash in their galleries know what they are doing. After all, there are critics who will “put” a deep meaning under this garbage and pass off their assessments as generally accepted truths. And enterprising experts with fat wallets will pay solid money for THIS, remembering Dali’s confession that “the world is full of cretins”, and after some time they will be able to resell the “masterpiece” for three times more. Such a great deception.”
Noelia Haro (She participated as a beautiful model)