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Malevich's black square and the nothingness as the next step of art

The black square of Malevich absorbed and better than other arts expressed the spirit of madness before WWI. This is a symbol of the gradual transformation of a person into nothingness through degradation into an increasingly wild and aggressive creature, as shown by the European Nazis/fascists and the Japanese during WWII. The degradation all started with Monet, who presented people as soulless motley spots, while classical art was looking for expression of the (yes, Christian) spirituality of a person's face and hands (for good deeds). Picasso split a human being into a set of pieces, almost not connected with either the body or the soul. Malevich brought the idea of the absence of humans to the ultimate principle - there is neither body nor soul. Full dehumanization. But there are forms instead. After World War III, only nothingness will remain, under which the entire history of mankind will be hidden, including the black Suprematist rectangle. The formless will absorb all forms and this will be the ultimate victory and end of art, which is likely more important than life. Malevich was a member of a futurist club and his companion poet Kruchyonykh wrote a  piece where the last quatrain was empty, i.e. nothingness was foreseen by futurists. 

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