Proun 99
ca. 1923-25
El Lissitzky called his mind-bending geometric compositions 'Prouns,' short for 'Project for the Affirmation of the New.' He described these works as a transfer station between painting and architecture, floating in a space that isn't quite two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Notice how the stark black-and-white cube seems to hover over that intricate grid-like triangle? It's like a blueprint for a futuristic building that exists only in the imagination of the Russian avant-garde, designed to completely shake up how people saw the world after the Revolution.