"Black Square" by Malevich: who feels that, looking at this picture

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"Originally, the square of Malevich first appeared in the decorations for the Futurist opera" Victory over the Sun, "which he made out in 1913," a plastic expression of the victory of the active human creativity over passive forms of nature: a black square instead of the solar cycle. " This was the famous scene of the fifth stage of the 1 st action, which is a square in a square, divided into two areas: black and white. Then the scenery this box migrated to the easel works.
"The work was done by Malevich in the summer and autumn of 1915. According to the artist, he wrote her a few months. "

In the years 1919-1922 Kasimir Malevich taught at the National Art School "a new revolutionary model" in Vitebsk.
"We set ourselves: - wrote Leonid Katsis, -" What could it mean the expression "black square on a black background, black square on a white background", etc., for young artists Vitebsk Jews who have lived all their lives in the Jewish Province ? How were they perceive the subject (and object of it?), If they themselves wrote: "Wear a black square ..."? Nothing at least 5 times a week they had seen, if not used ourselves, it is an object that represents the "black cube on a black square background. This tefillin - a ritual object worn Jews at prayer. Clearly, a black cube on a black background and give us the desired "black square on a black background, - Leonid Katsis in the Ideology of the Vitebsk UNOVIS (affirmative new art), the Temple and the Talmud." The same author records the fact of wearing the black squares "by some participants suprematistskogo movement.
Photo: Traditional Jewish tefillin in the form of 2 black cubes with the sacred texts inside: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%...80%D0%B0%D1%82

"Square" played a role in the design of Malevich's funeral. He died in Leningrad in 1935 during a funeral on an open platform of the truck with the image of the black square on the hood was installed suprematic coffin, like a sarcophagus. On the testament of Malevich, his body was cremated in the coffin Suprematism, and then the urn was buried near the village of Nemchinovka. Over the grave was set cubic concrete monument depicting the black square.