PHI 170 Chapter Notes - Chapter Whole reading: Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism, Milk Bottle
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To the supremacist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless. The materialization of a feeling in the conscious min really means a materialization of the reflection of that feeling through the medium of some realistic conception. The enduring, true value of a work of art resides solely in the feeling expressed. Dialectic methods in no sense determine the true value of an artwork. An objective representation, having objectivity as its aim, is something which has nothing to do with art. To the supremacist, the appropriate means of representation is always the one which gives fullest possible expression to feeling as such and which ignores the familiar appearance of objects. Objectivity, in itself, is meaningless to him. The concepts of the conscious mind are worthless. Feeling is the determining factor and thus art arrives at nonobjective representation at. It reaches a desert in which nothing can be perceived by feeling.
