Pink Circle, Yellow Rectangle

When I was a child, my father had a book called "100 masterpieces of painting". There were works from Van Gogh, Goya, Botticelli, Gaugin, Seurat, Rembrandt and Picasso among others. A painting stood apart for its apparent simplicity: "Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle" by Kasimir Malevitch. I told myself it had to be a joke, yet I kept coming back to it. It fascinated me.

My father didn't take Malevich seriously, but at the age of 7, I came to a different conclusion: the joy you derive from a work of art doesn't have to correlate with its complexity.