I could have done that. Yes, But you didn't

Kazimir Malevich's “Black Square” is the most recognizable symbol of the Russian avant-garde art school. The painting has given rise to a multitude of interpretations, arguments, and legends.
Kazimir Malevich painted “The Black Suprematist Square” in 1915, in the heat of World War I, but he first conceived the idea 2 years ago in 1913. Initially, “The Black Square” was not intended to have any symbolic meaning: its purpose was to solve artistic problems.

However, as is often the case with masterpieces, the painting spurred a multitude of interpretations and even provoked skeptical remarks, such as "So, this is also art? Even I could paint a square!" In reality, “The Black Square” is a very complex painting; painting it required very solid knowledge of colors, composition, and artistic proportions.

To begin with, “The Black Square”is not a square. None of its sides are parallel to the frame. Besides, it is made of mixed colors, none of which is black. If you look closer, you will see that the paint has cracked over time, creating an intricate network of line which some assert represents a running buffalo.

One urban myth has it that “The Black Square” came to be by accident: a major futuristic exhibition was fast approaching at which Malevich and his fellow artists had a huge hall reserved for their works.

On learning that there would be a lot of wall space to fill up, the artists urgently began creating more works. Malevich couldn't get his one going, so simply painted the canvas over.

Malevich himself used to say that he had created “The Black Square” in a mystical trance, under the influence of a "cosmic consciousness" experience.

He even accentuated this by making sure that at the exhibition, the picture was hanging to the right of the entrance, the place reserved to Christian icons in accordance with the Russian tradition.

Alexander Benois, an art critic and himself an artist, immediately noticed this. "That is undoubtedly the icon that Messrs Futurists oppose to the Madonna."

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Silvia is an Italian/Australian artist, born in Rimini, on the East Coast of Italy.

After a diploma in construction and construction drawings, she received a degree in Artistic Anthropology from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna studying
Art History, Psychology, Drawings, Illustrations, Anatomy, Theatre, and, above all, she fell in love with Artistic Anthropology, thanks to the amazing teaching of the dearly beloved Mr. Roberto Daolio, one of the finest art curator in Italy in those years.

She studied Professional Make Up at the Accademia Nazionale del Cinema in Bologna and she extensively studied makeup across tribes, traditions, ethnicities, and contemporary anthropology.

Her artistic work is largely influenced by the art of Aubrey Beardsley, Francisco Goya, Lucien Freud, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, René Magritte, Klimt, Schiele, the Renaissance and the Baroque and Rococo landscapers, especially in Venice.

Silvia loves the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, and Erwin Olaf, and the performance of Matthew Barney, Pina Bausch, and the contemporary Italian company MOTUS.

In her illustrations, she works with pen, ink, watercolours and Pantone colours on paper. Mixed media can also include gold leaves at times.
In her paintings, she works with oil colours.

​The village of Santarcangelo Di Romagna, which is near to Rimini, is a town of painters and artists of all sorts. It is here, where Silvia formed her foundation for appreciating the beauty in simple things, and for finding poetry in the ordinary.

Why do we make art? Where does the inspiration come from? What are we making it for?
These are very important questions for both, the artist who wants to transmit 'something', and the buyer, who gets moved by 'something' in the artwork.
What it is? What's that something?

Silvia remembers when fish of many varieties, wrapped in old newspapers, having been freshly caught , were being passed hand to hand from the boats, to men and women on the docks which, early in the morning, were lining the harbour, on push bikes or just standing , embraced in the first light of the day, anticipating the arrival of the boats, with their escort of flocks of hungry seagulls.

​Fish are life. Fish are work. Fish are a blessing given from Mother Nature. Fish are simple yet beautiful in their simplicity.
Fish smell and are real like only fish can be.
Fish are part of our roots and heritage, a classic; They are a metaphor of life and a never-ending source of inspiration. ​
Fish do not discriminate; Fish know no borders; Fish only answer the call of Nature, they follow the currents and sometimes even go against it .
Fish works in groups, Fish dance, Fish sing, Fish are predators, and are prey.
Fish range from some of the smallest life on earth to the largest, and occupy waters from the North to South, East and West.
Fish have been feeding humanity from the Beginning and we should respect the Fish, Thank the Fish, Protect the Fish, learn how to live like the Fish.

Silvia is environmentally aware, she is not against fishing, unless its deemed as an unsustainable fishing practice, and is staunchly against the hunting of large mammals for any reason.
Only original works, made with love.

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