Lamprini D. Repouliou

- "It shouldn't have taken him much time to paint this." - "It took him a life to conceive it and become able to paint it within a few minutes." Picasso once said that it took him around four years to learn how to paint like #Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child. One can say that one does not like #Picasso, or that one does not understand his work; but it makes no sense for one to say that Picasso was lacking technical skills. On the contrary, his early works are a gr

- "I could do that." - "Yes, but you didn't." The lack of refined artistic techniques, does not imply lack of artistic sophistication. To admire the importance of the "Black Square" one should take into consideration Malevich's other works. This #masterpiece can be read as the the final outcome of a series of #deductive interventions, applied on his other works. In his early works, the artist's favourite topic was the rural life; the human figures gradually transformed into #