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This in "things that go over people's heads": I'm heavily involved in quaternion-related theory stuff at the moment (that's the 4 dimensional extension of complex numbers). I also found a competition that has a deadline after my finals to win money for writing a history of mathematics essay. So tomorrow night I'll take a look at first edition versions of some of Hamilton's original works (from 1853 and 1866) on the topic.

Hamilton was cool, and if I can get money out of reading older papers for the information I need anyway, that's awesome.

19th century, so all sorts of science. He invented quaternions and one of the three things in the Schrödinger equation is named after him. I'm not sure why, but I know it's the same Hamilton.

One of the first US politicritters to get caught having an affair, and actually resigned for it.

I thought you studied history? Wasn't there art history included?

I thought he was the Formula 1 driver.

Black is technically not even a colour. And the skill is not in the technical aspect but in making it as aesthetically pleasing as possible. Also keep in mind that it is almost 100 years old, it was a lot more revolutionary back then than it may seem now.

The black square is of course extremely minimal in composition but artists like Jackson Pollock or Mondriaan didn't use techniques too advanced for a third grader yet their work still has a quality few other people can match.

Yves Klein? Because he developed the paint and colour used for those paintings (the colour is now known as International Klein Blue) so there's more thought behind it than just painting a canvas blue.

He also managed to get 3000 people to queue up to look at an empty gallery which I think is pretty ******* brilliant.

I think his work is/was borderline performance art rather than a painting. I'm not that familiar with his work though.

It's not fraud if it doesn't make you any money.

In the case of that exposition (aptly named "The Void") it probably would have made you see things in a new light if you were in that queue. Especially the last people, having waited for maybe a few hours based on nothing but hype.

Huh. Apparently Dota 2 decided to skip their Halloween event this year.

/r/Dota2 is screaming. It's kind of funny, really.

I hope this doesn't come across as me just jumping on the Bandwagon, but I really am missing something with this black square. I just don't see this guy sitting for days, struggling with "how can I best represent my vision of God?" and finally, after innumerable attempts, coming up with a black square mounted on a slightly larger stone colored square. It is more likely to me that he came up with the explanation afterward, maybe as he sat there with a friend, drunk, and they were talking about the funny painting in the corner.

When I was a kid, another kid showed me a blank page and told me it was his masterpiece. I asked what it was. He said it was a cow in a meadow. I asked where the grass was. He said the cow ate it. I asked where the cow was. He said it ate all the grass so it left. Is that art? Yeah, it's just a dumb third grade joke. But it was this kid's expression of a cow in a meadow.

It's not art simply because a fairly intelligent guy/gal/con artist can come up with what sounds like a cool explanation for it. To me, art is something that if I stare at it long enough, it moves me somehow or I see something in it. I could stare at that black square forever and it would not move me, and I would never think it was a representation of God or of anything other than a black square. I think you give Malevich too much credit for this, like everyone else. I also think there's a lot of hive mind mentality at work in connection with this Black Square.

How about I re-imagine it for you. I think it more represents the artist and his time than anything else. Communism was the stripping away of all wealth to make everyone equal. Individuality was crushed. The Black Square represents this - form is anathema because it illustrates individuality. The Black Square is nothing more than a representation of the artist's life at the time. Mildly interesting at best. Some of his other work is much more interesting, and is actually art. Like his white squares painting. Which is obviously a representation of boobs.

Now, as for the knotted chair . . .

Cynyck, obviously there's a lot of hivemind mentality but it also gets a lot of it's value from it's context and it's place in art history. It's very much a right place at the right time kind of thing.

Just the fact that it inspired so many other people makes it more than mildly interesting. At the end of the day it is of course still a black ******* square and the painting itself is probably the least interesting thing about the painting.