‘The Most Famous, Most Enigmatic, And Most Frightening Painting Known To Man’: Tatyana Tolstaya On Malevich’s ‘The Black Square’

“With an easy flick of the wrist, he once and for all drew an uncrossable line that demarcated the chasm between old art and new art … In his own words, he reduced everything to the ‘zero of form.’ Zero, for some reason, turned out to be a square, and this simple discovery is one of the most frightening events in art in all of its history of existence.”