Black Square
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Black Square is a 1915 oil on linen canvas painting by the Russian avant-garde artist and theorist Kazimir Malevich. There are four painted versions, the first of which was completed in 1915 and descr
Kazimir Malevich, 1915, Black Suprematic Square, oil on linen canvas, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Malevich, c. 1900
Suprematist works by Malevich at the 0,10 Exhibition, Saint Petersburg, 1915
Triptych at the Russian Museum showing the 1924 version
Suprematism
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Suprematism is an early 20th-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry, painted in a limited range of colors. The term suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon "the supremac
Black Square
…There are four painted versions, the first of which was completed in 1915 and described by the artist as his breakthrough work and the inception of his Suprematist art movement (1915–1919). In his manifesto for the Suprematist movement, Malevich stated that the paintings were intended as "a desperate struggle to…
Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism, 1916–17, Krasnodar Museum of Art
Kazimir Malevich, Black Circle, motive 1915, painted 1924, oil on canvas, 106.4 × 106.4 cm, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg