The Surprising and Interdisciplinary Travel of a Black Square. Painting and Cinema

Abstract

It does not fit doubt that the most known and representative creation of the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, is, at the same time, one of the most polemic, misunderstood and enigmatic works of the contemporary art. It calls the attention how a formal painting and plastically so simple it could have generated rivers of ink throughout the last century. Nevertheless, taking the risk of seeming to incur a new exaggeration, we dare to affirm that much less everything is not even said on the quintessence of the suprematism. The interdisciplinary running that it has made the above mentioned work throughout the last century, going on from the painting to the cinema and from the cinema to the painting, is a very suggestive topic that we can use as an example of the moment when estimating the important iconographic legacy which supposed for some people the clear sign of a foreseen lack of resources of the suprematist abstraction. The methodology followed in this work is essentially formalist.