Kazimir Malevich

Black Square — Suprematism, the zero of form

The painter who reduced art to its absolute zero. Black Square — a black square on a white ground, exhibited in the corner where a Russian home would hang its icon — declared the end of representation and the beginning of pure geometric abstraction. Suprematism, his movement, influenced the Bauhaus, De Stijl, and every minimalist who followed.

Key works

• Black Square1915— The icon of abstraction — hung in the icon corner
  Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• White on White1918— Suprematism's vanishing point
  Museum of Modern Art, New York

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