Kazimir Malevich's Truth of Nothing

"If there is a truth," said Malevich, "then only in abstraction, in nothingness."

Malevich's Black Square (1915) was for him, he said, the "majestic newborn, living, royal infant" representing the world - Andrei Nakov called it the "zero form of the new painting" (i.e. Suprematism).

Malevich aimed at the "supremacy of pure feeling" or abstraction "in itself." The black rectangle is "freed from the pressure of objects."

Black of course is the color of anarchy, appearing now in rectangular form. The Black Square is then to be considered as a "positive presence" - we might say that it is the form of negation.

The more positive and primary presence is, however, the tetrahedron, the brilliant structure of the Diamond Lotus of Om mani padme hum.

The Diamond is Man's Best Friend
by David Arthur Walters
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