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The art news of today is that a painting by Kazimir_Malevich see article at Bloomberg “Suprematist Composition” was sold at Sotheby’s auction in New York for $60 million. It is a record and a significant milestone for the artist, Russian art and the cubism-like art as well.
Even if you don’t know a thing about art, you probably have heard about the famous painting by Kazimir Malevich titled “Black Square”, which is being hotly discussed to this day.
The joke exists about the curator of the museum reprimanding workers for hanging the “Black Square” upside down and, what a shame, not noticing it for two weeks.
You have to be a great artist, to be able to transform the filling of a darkness within you into a painting, which becomes famous by its simplicity: Just Black Square. But that (I think) can be understood only if you know the history of that painting, or equally artistic to understand it fully without explanation.
Visit this Kazimir Malevich Wikipedia page to read more about the artist and see his other very interesting paintings”.Here is something Malevich wrote: “I felt only night within me and it was then that I conceived the new art, which I called Suprematism”.
The thing is, that this Russian artist is famous for creating a Suprematism movement in art, did enjoy a good life as a trendy, albeit somewhat a traditional artist before that.
And here is Malevich’s: “White on White” composition.
The auction itself was a lackluster event (as I understand), but had one more bright spot: the work of a French artist Edgar Degas “Danseuse au repos”, depicting a ballet dancer. The painting was also sold for a record of $37,042,500.Many of the paintings had failed to sell.
Here is about Degas and his work: Edgar Degas.
There’s also going to be an auction at Christie’s (next two days), and unless it produces an unexpectedly high and exciting sale, this auction (Sotheby’s) will become a point of yet another countdown: a noticeable sliding down of art appreciation, which manifests itself in a significant price correction.
The slipping economy reaches one more segment: high priced art.
