Black Square and Red Square
1915
Kazimir Malevich stripped art down to its absolute basics with this bold composition, declaring that pure feeling was more important than depicting the real world. Painted in 1915, it belongs to his revolutionary Suprematist movement, where geometric shapes float in a white void to represent infinite space. The slightly tilted red square adds a dynamic, almost playful energy against the heavy, grounded black square above it. It looks simple, but it completely changed the course of modern art by proving you don't need to paint a tree or a face to create a masterpiece.
- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Material
- Canvas
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