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Kazimir Malevich

Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, 1915
20 7/8 x 20 7/8 inches
Oil on canvas
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

I reject the soul and intuition as unnecessary. On February 19th, 1914 at a public lecture I rejected reason. I give warning of a danger. Reason has now imprisoned art in a box of square dimensions. Foreseeing the danger of a fifth and sixth dimension, I fled, since the fifth and sixth dimensions form a cube in which art will stifle.

Escape before it is too late.
Dostoyevsky said in his naivete: "What is the mind for if not to get what you want."
So instead of writing artistic works he wrote clever ones.
A work of the highest art is written in the absence of reason.
A fragment from such a work:

"I have just eaten calves' feet.
It is suprisingly difficult to adjust oneself to happiness having traveled the length and breadth of Siberia.
I always envy the telegraph pole. A chemist's shop."

Of course many people will think that this is absurd, but in vain. One has only to light two matches and set up the wash-stand [ i.e.: mind-reason ]

 . . . Kazimir Malevich, 1916

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