{"id":3298,"date":"2023-04-22T19:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/?page_id=3298"},"modified":"2025-06-01T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:06:09","slug":"black-square","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/series\/black-square","title":{"rendered":"Black Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love the painting <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Square_(painting)\" target=\"_blank\">Black Square by Malevitch<\/a>. I love its simplicity, its directness, its definitiveness, its completeness. 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