Battle of blacks at night. "Black Square" was the first to be written not by Malevich, but by the French poet Bilo, calling the painting "Battle of the Negroes in the Tunnel

Alphonse Allais (1854 - 1905) - French journalist, writer and eccentric humorist, known for his sharp language and absurdist antics, a quarter of a century anticipating the famous outrageous exhibitions of the Dadaists and Surrealists of the 1910s and 1920s.

Alphonse Allais is also known as the "secret" founder and forerunner of conceptualism and minimalism in literature, painting and even music. A quarter of a century before Kazimir Malevich, Alphonse Allais became the author of a work similar to the famous "Black Square", and almost seventy years later he unexpectedly anticipated the famous minimalist play "4′33" by John Cage, which is four and a half "minutes of silence".

The beginning of the way

Alphonse Allais was born in Honfleur (Department of Calvados). His father was a pharmacist. Having quickly completed his studies and received a bachelor's degree by the age of seventeen, Alphonse entered his father's pharmacy as an assistant or trainee. Alphonse's father great pride outlined for him a career as a great chemist or pharmacist. The future will show: Alphonse Allais brilliantly justified these hopes. However, even the very beginning of his activities in the family pharmacy has already proved to be very promising.

As a debut, Alphonse conducted several daring experiments on the effects on patients of a high-quality placebo of his original formulation, synthesized original counterfeit drugs, and also made several unusually interesting diagnoses with his own hands.

He will be happy to tell about his first small pharmacy triumphs a little later, in his fairy tale: The Heights of Darwinism.

“... I also found something for a lady who suffered severely from her stomach:
Lady: - I don't know what's wrong with me, first the food goes up and then goes down...
Alphonse: - I'm sorry, madam, did you accidentally swallow the elevator?

Having discovered the success of his son in the field of pharmaceuticals, his father gladly sent him from Honfleur to Paris, where Alphonse Allais spent the rest of his life. He sent him to an internship in the pharmacy of one of his close friends. For more close examination, a few years later this pharmacy turned out to be a privileged Masonic cabaret " Black cat”, where Alphonse continued to make his recipes and heal the sick with great success.

His friendship with Charles Cros (famous inventor of the phonograph) should have brought him back to scientific research, but these plans again did not come true. Fundamental scientific work Alphonse Allais are contributions to science, although today they are much less known than he himself. Alphonse Allais managed to publish his most serious research on color photography, as well as a lengthy work on the synthesis of rubber (and rubber stretching). In addition, he received a patent for own recipe preparation of lyophilized (freeze-dried) coffee.

Picturesque masterpieces

First in a series artistic discoveries Alphonse Alle became a completely black and almost square canvas:

Not stopping at success, Alle exposed pristine Blank sheet bristol paper...

And "it started". Absolute red "Harvesting of tomatoes on the shores of the Red Sea by apoplectic cardinals", blue "Stupor of young soldiers seeing the blue for the first time mediterranean sea”, green “Pimps in their prime, on their stomachs in the grass, drinking absinthe” and just a gray “Group of drunkards in the fog.”

musical masterpiece

Alphonse Allais also decided to make his historical contribution to musical art. In 1897, he re-composed, "performed" and published in a special album of the Ollendorf publishing house "Funeral March for the Burial of the Great Deaf", which, however, did not contain a single note. Only deathly silence, as a sign of respect for death and understanding of the important principle that great sorrows are dumb. They do not tolerate any fuss or unnecessary sounds. It goes without saying that the score of this march was a blank page of music paper, borrowed by a friend of the composer Eric Satie for a single performance of Alphonse's masterpiece.

Literary masterpieces

The first book by Alphonse Allais called " White Night Red Hussar" was published in early 1887 by Ollendorf, it was a 36-page brochure with illustrations by the artist Karan d'Ash. From that moment on, Allais' collections began to be published annually, and sometimes twice, and this continued until 1900, after which Alphonse stopped working with Parisian publishers. Basically it literary creativity consists of stories and fairy tales, which he wrote an average of two or three pieces a week. In addition, he constantly published in newspapers, where, in his own words, "laughed for money."

"Things" by Alphonse Allais

We need to be more tolerant of man, nevertheless, let's not forget about the primitive era in which he was created.

There are often moments in life when the absence of cannibals is extremely painful.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Even poverty is easier to bear with money, isn't it?

What is a lazy person: this is a person who does not even pretend to work.

As the widow of a man who died after a consultation said top three doctors in Paris
- But what could he do alone, sick, against three - healthy?

While we are thinking about how best to kill time, time is methodically killing us.
Alphonse Allais died in one of the rooms of the Britannia Hotel, on Rue Amsterdam, not far from the Osten-Fox Cafe, where Alphonse Allais spent a lot of free time. The day before, the doctor had strictly ordered him not to get up in bed for six months, only then recovery seemed possible. Otherwise, death.

« funny people those doctors! They seriously think that death is worse than six months in bed!”

“Keep in mind, tomorrow I will already be a corpse! You will find it witty, but I will no longer laugh with you. Now you'll be left laughing - without me. So tomorrow I'll be dead!" In full accordance with its latest funny joke, he died the next day, October 28, 1905.

After the Second World War in France, the political Association of Absolute Apologists of Alphonse Allais (abbreviated as AAAAA) was organized and is still actively operating. This close-knit group of fanatical people is a public body in which Alphonse's humor is valued above all other charms of life.

AAAAA, among other things, has its registered office, bank account and headquarters in the "Alphonse Allais Minist Museum" on the High Street of Honfleur.

By the way, the Alphonse Allais Museum, according to its organizers, "the smallest in the world" is still located in a real authentic Parisian room, where Alphonse Allais not only never lived, did not eat, did not sleep, but even could not there to be.

Permanent guide Alle long years is a certain man, Jean-Yves Loriot, who constantly carries an official document confirming that he is the illegal reincarnation of the great humorist Alphonse Allais. He willingly shows visitors Alle's inventions - for example, black earplugs for widows. Items from the Allais collection are placed on the shelves: “Voltaire’s skull as a child”, “a cup for a left-hander”, “a real piece of a fake Cross of Christ”.

The French journalist, writer and eccentric humorist Alphonse Allais liked the idea so much that he developed it in 1893, calling his black rectangle “Combat de nègres dans une cave, pendant la nuit” (“The battle of the Negroes in the cave late at night"). Not stopping at the success achieved, then Alle put up a virgin white sheet of Bristol paper called "The first communion of girls suffering from chlorosis in the snowy season." Six months later, next picture Alphonse Allais was seen as a kind of "coloristic explosion". The rectangular landscape "Harvesting tomatoes on the shores of the Red Sea by apoplectic cardinals" was a bright red one-color painting without the slightest sign of an image (1894). In the end, in 1897, Allais published a book of 7 paintings "Album primo-avrilesque" (April Fools' Album).

Thus, twenty years before the Suprematist revelations of Kazimir Malevich, the venerable artist Alphonse Alle became " by unknown author» first abstract paintings. Alphonse Allais also became famous for the fact that in almost seventy years he unexpectedly anticipated the famous minimalist piece of music“4′33″” by John Cage, representing four and a half “minutes of silence”. Perhaps the only difference between Alphonse Allais and his followers was that he, exposing his stunning pioneering work, did not at all try to look like a significant philosopher or a serious discoverer.

Kazimir Malevich painted his Black Square in 1915. This is a canvas measuring 79.5 by 79.5 centimeters, which depicts a black square on a white background, written with a thin brush. According to the artist, he painted it for several months. The black square also has 2 "brothers": the red square and the white square.

Malevich's "Square" was painted for an exhibition held in a huge hall. According to one version, the artist was unable to finish the painting in the right time, so he had to cover up the work with black paint. Subsequently, after the recognition of the public, Malevich painted new "Black Squares" already on blank canvases. Attempts to explore the canvas in order to find the original version under top layer were made repeatedly. However, scholars and critics felt that irreparable damage could be done to the masterpiece.

The Tretyakov Gallery published the latest research data, according to which two color images and an inscription literally repeating the famous folk anecdote about the painting are hidden under the Black Square.

“It was known that under the image of the “Black Square” there was some underlying image. We found out that there are not one such images, but two. And they proved that the original image is a cubo-futuristic composition, and the one lying under the “Black Square”, the color of which you see in craquelure, is a proto-Suprematist composition,” said Researcher Department of Scientific Expertise of the Tretyakov Gallery Ekaterina Voronina, whose words are quoted by the website of the channel "Culture".

IN x-rays on the "Black Square" the outlines of another painting by Kazimir Malevich are clearly visible. Under the microscope, it is clearly visible how another paint layer shines through the craquelure, that is, the cracks of the Black Square.

The authors of the study, employees of the Tretyakov Gallery Ekaterina Voronina, Irina Rustamova and Irina Vakar, spoke about their other discovery. They deciphered the inscription on the "Black Square", which they consider to be the author's. More precisely, they almost deciphered it: three letters are missing. In a word that starts with "n" and ends with "ov". The whole phrase, according to museum workers, sounds like "The battle of blacks in a dark cave."

Thus, the picture of Malevich can be considered something like a correspondence dialogue between the artist and the author of the canvas, written in 1882 French writer and the eccentric Alphonse Allais. His all-black painting is titled "Battle of the Negroes in a Dark Cave in the Dead of Night".

“Malevich has a complex, confusing handwriting and some letters are spelled the same: “n”, “p”, and even “i” in some texts are very close in spelling. We are working on the second word. But the fact that the first word is “Battle”, you can all see, making sure of this in the exposition,” commented Ekaterina Voronina.

It was evident that few of those present expected to hear something like this. The international conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Black Square brought together guests from different countries.

“Our family is very glad that the memory of a very important artist alive for the world, and not only here in Moscow,” admitted Kazimir Malevich’s great-niece Ivona Malevich.

Art historians have yet to comprehend the discovery made. And the artists have already done it. An exhibition dedicated to the "Black Square" has opened within the walls of the Academy of Arts. The authors are the most eminent contemporary artists.

“It seemed to us that it would be appropriate in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Black Square to draw a line under its pressure, pressure, charm and the magnetism that it possesses, and finally free ourselves to move on. In short, we wanted to get rid of his influence,” explained Ivan Kolesnikov, curator of the exhibition.

January 25th, 2014

Marek Raczkowski.

Of course, everyone knows this, but I will probably collect everything in one place. It is quite possible that you will discover something new in this topic.

In 1882 (33 years before Malevich's Black Square) at the Exposition des Arts Incohérents exhibition in Paris, the poet Paul Bilo presented the painting Combat de nères dans un tunnel (The Battle of the Negroes in the Tunnel). True, it was not a square, but a rectangle.

French journalist, writer and eccentric humorist Alphonse Allais liked the idea so much that he developed it in 1893, calling his black rectangle "Combat de nègres dans une cave, pendant la nuit" ("Battle of the Negroes in a cave in the dead of night"). The painting was exhibited for the first time in the Untied Art exhibition at the Vivienne Gallery.

This masterpiece looked like this:

Further more. Both the white and the red square were also first depicted by Alle Alfons. " White square" was called "The first communion of insensible girls in the snow" (also performed in 1883). This masterpiece looked like this:

Six months later, the next picture of Alphonse Allais was perceived as a kind of “coloristic explosion”. The rectangular landscape "Harvesting tomatoes on the shores of the Red Sea by apoplectic cardinals" was a bright red one-color painting without the slightest sign of an image (1894).

The paintings of Alle Alphonse were perceived as clean water banter and shocking - in fact, only this idea is suggested by their names. Perhaps that is why we know so little about this artist.

Thus, twenty years before the Suprematist revelations of Kazimir Malevich, the venerable artist Alphonse Allais became the "unknown author" of the first abstract paintings. Alphonse Allais also became famous for the fact that in almost seventy years he unexpectedly anticipated the famous minimalist musical piece “4′33″” by John Cage, which is four and a half “minutes of silence”. Perhaps the only difference between Alphonse Allais and his followers was that he, exhibiting his stunningly innovative work, did not at all try to look like a meaningful philosopher or a serious discoverer.

Who is he? Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854, Honfleur (Department of Calvados) - October 28, 1905, Paris) - French journalist, eccentric writer and black humorist, known for his sharp tongue and gloomy absurd antics, a quarter of a century anticipating the famous outrageous exhibitions of the Dadaists and Surrealists of 1910- x and 1920s.

Alphonse Allais has been an eccentric writer, an eccentric artist and an eccentric person for almost his entire life. He was eccentric not only in his aphorisms, fairy tales, poems or paintings, but also in his daily behavior.

Having quickly completed his studies and received a bachelor's degree by the age of seventeen, Alphonse Allais (as an assistant or trainee) entered his father's pharmacy.

Alphonse's father, with great pride, charted for him a career as a great chemist or pharmacist. The future will show: Alphonse Allais brilliantly justified the hopes of his pharmacy father. He became more than a chemist and deeper than a pharmacist. However, even the very beginning of his activities in the family pharmacy has already proved to be very promising. As a debut, Alphonse conducted several daring experiments on the effects on patients of a high-quality placebo of his original formulation, synthesized original counterfeit drugs, and also made several unusually interesting diagnoses with his own hands. He will be happy to tell about his first small pharmacy triumphs a little later, in his fairy tale: The Heights of Darwinism.

“... I also found something for a lady who suffered severely from her stomach:

Lady: - I don’t know what’s wrong with me, first the food goes up, and then it goes down ...

Alphonse: - I'm sorry, madam, did you accidentally swallow the elevator?

(Alphonse Allais, "Laughed!")

Seeing the very first successes of his son in the field of pharmaceuticals, his father gladly sent him from Honfleur to Paris, where Alphonse Allais spent the rest of his life.

His father sent him to an internship in the pharmacy of one of his close friends. On closer examination, a few years later, this pharmacy turned out to be the privileged Masonic cabaret "Black Cat", where Alphonse Allais continued to make his prescriptions and heal the sick with great success. He was engaged in this respected business almost to the end of his life. His friendship with Charles Cros (the famous inventor of the phonograph) should have returned him to scientific research, but these plans again did not come true. The fundamental scientific works of Alphonse Allais represent a contribution to science, although today they are much less known than he himself. Alphonse Allais managed to publish his most serious research on color photography, as well as a lengthy work on the synthesis of rubber (and rubber stretching). In addition, he received a patent for his own recipe for making freeze-dried coffee.

At the age of 41, Alphonse Allais married Marguerite Allais in 1895.

He died in one of the rooms of the Britannia Hotel, where Alphonse Allais spent a lot of his free time. The day before, the doctor had strictly ordered him not to get up in bed for six months, only then recovery seemed possible. Otherwise, death. “Funny people, these doctors! They seriously think that death is worse than six months in bed!” As soon as the doctor disappeared behind the door, Alphonse Allais quickly got ready and spent the evening in a restaurant, and to a friend who accompanied him back to the hotel, he told his last anecdote:

“Keep in mind, tomorrow I will already be a corpse! You will find it witty, but I will no longer laugh with you. Now you'll be left laughing - without me. So tomorrow I'll be dead!" In full accordance with his last funny joke, he died the next day, October 28, 1905.

Alphonse Allais was buried in the Saint-Ouen cemetery in Paris. 39 years later, in April 1944, his grave was razed to the ground and disappeared without the slightest trace under the friendly bombs of the French liberation army of Charles de Gaulle. In 2005, the imaginary remains of Alphonse Allais were solemnly (with great pomp) transferred to the "top" of the Montmartre hill.

After the Second World War, the political Association of Absolute Apologists of Alphonse Allais (abbreviated as "A.A.A.A.A.") was organized in France and is still actively operating. This close-knit group of fanatical people is a public body in which Alphonse's humor is valued above all other charms of life. AAAAA, among other things, has its registered office, bank account and headquarters in the "Most Small Museum of Alphonse Allais" on the Upper Street of the city of Honfleur (Calvados, Normandy, Pharmacy).

Every Saturday in the late afternoon, the Alphonse Museum is open for free visits to all comers. At the service of visitors are laboratory experiments "a la Alle", chemical tastings "a la Alle", diagnoses "a la Alle", inexpensive (but very effective) gastric pills "pur Alle" and even a direct conversation on the old phone "Allo , Alle. All these services can be obtained in just half an hour in the gloomy backstage of the Honfleur pharmacy, where Alphonse Allais was born. This extremely cramped space has also been declared the smallest museum in the world, not excluding the world's smallest Alphonse Allais "authentic room" museum in Paris, and the small museum"Eric Satie's Closet" at the French Ministry of Culture. These three smallest museums in the world are vying for the title of who is smaller. Alle's permanent guide for many years is a certain man, Jean-Yves Loriot, who constantly carries an official document confirming that he is the illegal reincarnation of the great humorist Alphonse Alle.

Alphonse Allais broke with pharmacies and began to publish regularly a very long time ago, it was, I think, in 1880-82. The first careless story of Alphonse marked the beginning of his 25-year writing life. He did not tolerate order in anything and directly stated, “Don’t even hope, I am dishonorable.” He wrote in a cafe, in fits and starts, almost did not work on books, and it looked something like this: “Don't talk nonsense ... so that I sit, not tearing my ass off, and poring over a book? - it's impossibly funny! No, I’d rather tear it off!”

Basically, his literary work consists of stories and fairy tales, which he wrote on average two or three pieces a week. Having a “heavy duty” to write a ridiculous column, and sometimes even a whole column in a magazine or newspaper, he involuntarily had to “laugh for money” almost every other day. During his life he changed seven newspapers, some he had in turn, and three at the same time.

Thus, first of all, a lively eccentric, then a little journalist and editor, and only lastly a writer, Alle worked forever in a hurry, wrote dozens of his “fairy tales”, hundreds of stories and thousands of articles on his left knee, in a hurry and most often - at the table (or under a table) in a cafe. Therefore, many of his works have been lost, even more have lost their value, but most of all - and remained on the tip of the tongue - unwritten.

Alphonse Allais never settled on one thing. He wanted to write everything at once, to cover everything, to succeed in everything, but in nothing in particular. Even clean literary genres he is always confused, crumbling and replacing one another. Under the guise of articles, he wrote stories, under the name of fairy tales - he described his acquaintances, instead of poetry he wrote puns, said "fables" - but he meant black humor, and even scientific inventions in his hands took on the cruel look of satire on human science and human nature...

In addition to studying literature “under a table in a cafe”, Alphonse Allais had many more important duties for society in his life.

In particular, he was a member of the board of the honorary hydropaths club, as well as one of the main participants accepted in governing bodies Masonic cabaret "Black Cat". It was there, at the Vivienne Gallery, that he exhibited his famous monochrome paintings for the first time during the exhibitions of "Unbound Art".

Perhaps the only difference between Alphonse Allais and his followers was that he, exhibiting his stunningly innovative work, did not at all try to look like a meaningful philosopher or a serious discoverer. This, perhaps, was the reason for the lack of professional recognition of his contribution to the history of art. With his works in the field of painting, Alphonse Allais very accurately explained the thesis as old as the world: "It's not so important what you do, much more important is how you present it."

In 1897, he composed and "performed" the "Funeral March for the Burial of a Great Deaf Man", which, however, did not contain a single note. Only silence, as a sign of respect for death and understanding of the important principle that great sorrows are dumb. They do not tolerate any fuss or sounds. It goes without saying that the score of this march was a blank sheet of music paper.

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

“...With money, even poverty is easier to bear, isn't it?”

“The hardest thing to survive is the end of the month, especially the last thirty days.”

“While we think about how best to kill time, time is methodically killing us.”

“To drive away is quite a bit to die. But to die is to drive off very strongly!

“... As the widow of a man who died after a consultation of the three best doctors in Paris said: “But what could he do alone, sick, against three healthy ones?”

"... We need to be more tolerant of man, nevertheless, let's not forget about the primitive era in which he was created."

(Alphonse Allais, "Things")

But what about Malevich's square?

Black Square 1915 Malevich,

Reference:

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was born (11) February 23, 1878 near Kyiv. However, there is other information about the place and time of his birth. Malevich's parents were Poles by origin. His father worked as a manager at the sugar factory of the famous Ukrainian industrialist Tereshchenko (according to other sources, Malevich's father was a Belarusian ethnographer and folklorist). Mother was a housewife. The Malevich couple had fourteen children, but only nine of them survived to adulthood. Casimir was the firstborn in the family.

He began to learn to draw on his own, after his mother gave him a set of paints at the age of 15. At the age of 17, he spent some time in the Kyiv art school. In 1896 the Malevich family settled in Kursk. There, Kazimir worked as a minor official, but left the service for the sake of a career as an artist. The first works of Malevich were written in the style of impressionism. Later artist became one of the active participants in futuristic exhibitions.

To us, the life of K. Malevich seems incredibly eventful, full of contrasts, ups and downs. But according to the master himself, it was not too long and eventful, as he dreamed. For a long time Malevich dreamed of visiting Paris, but he never managed to do it. He traveled abroad only in Warsaw and Berlin. Malevich did not know foreign languages, which he regretted throughout his life. He did not travel further than Zhytomyr. He failed to experience many of the aesthetic and worldly pleasures available to his more affluent and educated colleagues.

"On the boulevard", 1903

"Flower Girl", 1903

"Grinder" 1912

Malevich independently went all the way from a modest self-taught to the world famous artist, he took part in two revolutions, composed futuristic poems, reformed the theater, spoke at scandalous debates, was fond of theosophy and astronomy, taught, wrote philosophical writings, was in prison, was the director of a reputable institute and was unemployed ... Punin wrote that Malevich belonged to those people who were "charged with dynamite." Not every one of famous artists could so polarize public opinion. Malevich was always surrounded devoted friends and passionate rivals, he provoked the most rude scolding from critics, "his students idolized him like Napoleon's army." Even in our time, you can meet people who have a sharp opposite attitude and to the legacy of Malevich, and to his personal human qualities.

The whole meaning of Malevich's life was art. Malevich brought the explosive energy characteristic of his character into his work. His evolution as a painter really looks like a series of explosions and catastrophes. They were not particularly spontaneous, the researchers said that it was "a" testing ground "on which the art of painting tested and honed its new capabilities." According to this, it is possible to determine the trends in the history of art at the beginning of the 20th century. Malevich was outstanding artist who contributed to the development of the art of that time.

Malevich's "Square" was painted for an exhibition held in a huge hall. According to one version, the artist was unable to complete the work on the painting in the right time, so he had to cover up the work with black paint. Subsequently, after the recognition of the public, Malevich painted new "Black Squares" already on blank canvases. Attempts to examine the canvas in order to find the original version under the top layer were made repeatedly. However, scholars and critics felt that irreparable damage could be done to the masterpiece.

Wikipedia tells us that Malevich actually has not one, but four Black Squares:

*Currently, there are four "Black Squares" in Russia: in Moscow and St. Petersburg, two "Squares" each: two in Tretyakov Gallery, one in the Russian Museum and one in the Hermitage. One of the works belongs to the Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin, who bought it from Inkombank in 2002 for 1 million US dollars (about 28 million rubles) and transferred it to the Hermitage for indefinite storage.

Black Square 1923 Malevich, Wikipedia

Black Square 1929 Malevich, Wikipedia

Black square 1930 Malevich, Wikipedia

Malevich has both Red Square and White Square, and much more. But for some reason it was this Black Square that won worldwide fame. However, not only is the painting by Malevich not a square (the corners are not straight!) but it is also not completely black (at least the file with the painting contains about 18,000 colors),

wise art critics write:

The conceptual content of the "Black Square" is, first of all, to bring the viewer's consciousness into the space of another dimension, to that single Suprematist plane, both economic and economic. In this space of a different dimension, three main directions can be distinguished - suprematism, economy and economy. In itself, the form in Suprematism, due to its pointlessness, does not represent anything. On the contrary, it destroys things and acquires meaning as a primary element, entirely subordinated to the economic beginning, which in symbolic expression is “zero forms”, “black square”.

Again, considering that black, objectified and expressed in the form of a “black square”, is inextricably linked with a white background, and without it, the manifestation of color always remains incomplete and dull. From this, it turns out another, no less significant formula of the "black square" as a symbol: "Black square" is an expression of the unity of opposite colors. In this most generalized formula, black and white can be expressed as light and non-light, as two attributes of the Absolute, existing both inseparably and inseparably. That is, they exist as one, one - thanks to which one on the other, and here . See more work The original article is on the website InfoGlaz.rf Link to the article from which this copy is made -

Interesting article. I will quote it in full with my comments. There is a link and photos. And here is a link to Wikipedia for persuasiveness ...

The battle of the blacks deep cave dark night

Before you is a picture that has a name "Battle of the Negroes in a Deep Cave on a Dark Night"(1893). It was created twenty years before the birth of Malevich's "masterpiece" (1915). The author is a Frenchman from the coast la Manche, a very eccentric person, the same writer-humorist and artist Alphonse Allais (Alphonse Alle).

Alphonse Allais also unexpectedly anticipated in almost seventy years the famous minimalist musical piece “4’33" by John Cage, which is four and a half “minutes of silence” - Allais called the work even more conceptually “Funeral March for the Burial of the Deaf” ( Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Death Man.

As you can see, this Alphonse Allais was a comedian in life, and not in position. And he made his "masterpieces" for fun. Some names are worth something. And later plagiarists copied them in all seriousness.

He died in one of the rooms of the Hotel Britannia (Fr. Britannia), which is on the ryu, not far from the cafe "Austen-Fox" (fr. Austin-Fox), where Alphonse Allais spent a lot of free time. The day before, the doctor had strictly ordered him not to get up in bed for six months, only then recovery seemed possible. Otherwise, death. “Funny people, these doctors! They seriously think that death is worse than six months in bed!”

As soon as the doctor disappeared behind the door, Alphonse Allais quickly got ready and spent the evening in a restaurant, and to a friend who accompanied him back to the hotel, he told his last anecdote: “Keep in mind, tomorrow I will already be a corpse! You will find it witty, but I will no longer laugh with you. Now you will be left laughing - without me. So tomorrow I'll be dead!"

In full accordance with his last funny joke, he died the next day, October 28, 1905. As the widow of a man who died after a consultation of the three best doctors in Paris said: “But what could he do alone, sick, against three healthy ones?”

By the way, he other colored squares created earlier Malevich. But the latter, for some reason, sells better at the corresponding auctions. Is he more “hyped” or something ... Or maybe they just don’t know? This question splits into two:

1. Why was Malevich promoted and not Alphonse Allais?

2. And why did they promote these “masterpieces” at all?

Why wasn't Alphonse Allais promoted? Apparently, because he had one, but a big drawback: he was not Jewish. Who will create world fame goy? Forbidden! (Religion). And about the reason why it was necessary to promote at least someone about this, I wrote in the article: « About the evil Jews and their role in the global economic crisis » :

"Was held whole line experiments to determine the limits of media influence on mass consciousness. There were no limits. For the purity of the experiment, it seemed that completely absurd and impossible tasks were taken. For example, to convince the world that the ridiculous muff, and even with speaking surname Malevich, and even from barbarian Russia, who painted over canvases with a wide brush of monochromatic paint, is a genius of all times and peoples. And his “works” are imperishable values of the highest category. (And this genius also drew monochrome circles and triangles. But they did not receive the status of masterpieces, perhaps because it was difficult for them to buy a suitable frame). The experiment was a success. Black and red squares are still worth huge