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by mcprwklzpq 1457 days ago
Except Malevich had written extensively about why he painted the Black Square and he never said it was to reject god.

Malevich even wrote an essay "Бог не скинут: Искусство, церковь, фабрика" (God is not thrown down: Art, church, factory) in which he argued that god exists because it is impossible to prove otherwise.

From this essay it is possible to conclude that Malevich in Black Square painted god as he imagined it. He wrote that since the seventh day of creation god rests and does nothing. That is why it appears as if god does not exists. Black Square depicts nothing.

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I may have overstepped with rejection. But in that essay he argues that there’s no such thing as God, God is just the embodiment of perfection in the universe, and man becomes God by attaining perfection, calls God fallible, refutes the concept of the trinity, says God is not omniscient, and ultimately concludes that God is not cast down because God is a creation of man as the answer to what is essentially a question of semantics, and so exists as the answer to an exercise in philosophy rather than in any real sense.