{"id":16195,"date":"2024-01-30T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/black-square\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:02:35","slug":"black-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/black-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16189\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Wikipedia\/Shakko\" width=\"851\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a.jpg 851w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a-600x635.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a-284x300.jpg 284w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a-417x441.jpg 417w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a-768x812.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/84d3398507efa84d1d5849d6753f444a-10x10.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Black Square<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Mark A. Murphy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The square is not a subconscious form. The square <br \/>is a living, regal infant.<\/em> <br \/>&#8211; Kasimir Malevich <\/p>\n<p>i<\/p>\n<p>Vel\u00e1squez knows all there is to know about art.<br \/>All there is to know about spitting.<\/p>\n<p>Take his life-size portrait of the Spanish royals,<br \/>as he interpolates himself<br \/>at the centre of the Spanish Golden Age.<\/p>\n<p>Vel\u00e1squez knows the risks. Reducing Philip IV <br \/>and Queen Mariana to bit parts.<\/p>\n<p>Shadows reflected in a mirror on the back wall.<br \/>A million miles from the real action.<\/p>\n<p>What on earth was Vel\u00e1squez thinking. To spit <br \/>in the eye of the most powerful couple on earth.<\/p>\n<p>ii<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, dare we speak of \u2018Black Square\u2019 <br \/>(on a white background) <br \/>in the same breath as \u2018Las Meninas.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Would Vel\u00e1squez be glad to learn that his rebellion<br \/>found an echo again, in the voice of Malevich.<\/p>\n<p>Who transformed the zero sum of form and self<br \/>in the act of spitting, as he emerged from nothing<\/p>\n<p>to creation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas.jpg\" alt=\"las meninas\" width=\"341\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas-600x526.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas-300x263.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas-441x386.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas-768x673.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/las_meninas-10x10.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Square by Mark A. Murphy The square is not a subconscious form. The square is a living, regal infant. &#8211; Kasimir Malevich i Vel\u00e1squez knows all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":16189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[1686,3005],"class_list":["post-16195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-malevich","tag-velasquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}