I am reasonably happy with his definition of the opposition between artificial geometric form and the “natural forms of nature.”
As a definition or prescription for art as a whole, it is absurd. Obviously we need the whole picture tree of the arts from the abstract arts (of wh. Malevich was one early pioneer) to the most concrete, realistic arts. Not so obviously, but nevertheless profoundly truly, both the scientific and artistic pictures of the world are totally interdependent and complementary. - from the abstract, formulaic to the outline-concrete, iconic/cartoonish to the more fully concrete photographic and sculptural. These are complementary not just as external pictures of the world but as the levels and media of fully intelligent thought – esp. AGI. The idea that only one level of depiction/thought is sufficient – or can embrace all the others – is quite intellectually mad, and won’t bear the slightest empirical examination. It’s hyperspecialist thinking as opposed to true generalist thinking of the new millennium. From: martin biehl Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:08 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Geometry vs Nature by Malevich I am very happy that you finally seem to have accepted that abstraction is the way to go and indeed it is a great master that seems to have convinced you. Kazimir Malevich may be my favorite artist and in terms of creativity need not to fear comparison to anyone. 2013/1/13 Mike Tintner <[email protected]> “The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. It is the face of the new art. The square is a living, royal infant. It is the first step of pure creation in art. Before it, there were naive deformities and copies of nature. Our world of art has become new, non-objective, pure.... only a cowardly consciousness and meager creative powers in an artist are deceived by this fraud and base their art on the forms of nature, afraid of losing the foundation on which the savage and the academy have based their art. Kazimir Malevich http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/from_russia_1207/fr02_malevich.htm AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
