RGB: (0,0,0)
Size: 1x1 pixel
Malevich's black square is often evoked by critics, historians, curators, and artists as the "zero point of painting." Malevich himself, referring to his work said. "It is from the zero, in the zero, that the true movement of being begins." The painting made history because it marked the fracture between representational and abstract painting.
I ask myself: what is the fracture between a physical painting and a digital work? Isn't the essence of digital art the fact that it can only be reproduced through illuminated pixels? Paintings are made of color, digital art is made of light. When there is no light, is there no art?
The RGB color model is additive, it combines the three primary colors: red, green and blue to reproduce a broad array of colors. The sum of the three primary colors is white and their total absence is black: (0,0,0).
We can create infinite artworks through the composition of different illuminated (or not) pixels, but what can a single, completely dark pixel represent in digital art?
