Kazimir Malevich
Black Square painter
Kazimir Malevich was a Russian avant-garde artist who founded Suprematism, an abstract movement reducing painting to pure geometric forms.
His 1915 *Black Square*—a black square on a white ground—became one of the most radical gestures in art history, rejecting representational imagery entirely.
Malevich's work influenced generations of abstract artists and remains central to discussions of modernism.
One who applies pigment
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- oil paintPigment bound with linseed
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
easel · palette · gallery · exhibition · retrospective · masterpiece · oeuvre · self-portrait
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
- constructivismActive knowledge-building theory
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- innovationCreating something original
- experimentalTesting new methods
radical · vanguard · modernism · progressive · nonconformist · revolutionary · manifesto · abstraction
Rhombus with right angles
- circleCurved closed shape
- rectangleFour-sided, all right angles
- crossPass from side to side
- triangleThree-sided plane figure
trapezoid · parallelogram · ellipse · diagonal · polygon · plane · form · shape
Moscow's central plaza
- non-representationalNot depicting reality
- diagonalSlanting line or path
- crossPass from side to side
- circleCurved closed shape
square · rectangle · weightlessness · infinite space · aerial perspective
painter
One who applies pigment
composition · easel · palette · gallery · exhibition · retrospective · masterpiece · oeuvre · self-portrait · figurative
futurism
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
- constructivismActive knowledge-building theory
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- innovationCreating something original
experimental · radical · vanguard · modernism · progressive · nonconformist · revolutionary · manifesto · abstraction · breakthrough
square
Rhombus with right angles
triangle · trapezoid · parallelogram · ellipse · diagonal · polygon · plane · form · shape · line
Red Square
Moscow's central plaza
- non-representationalNot depicting reality
- diagonalSlanting line or path
- crossPass from side to side
circle · square · rectangle · weightlessness · infinite space · aerial perspective
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- Abstract ArtistsPiet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Rothko
- Eastern European ArtistsMarc Chagall, Andrei Rublev
- Modern ArtistsPicasso, Pablo Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, Warhol
- Cubo-Futurismgeometric forms, fragmentation
- Russian Avant-Garde
Kazimir MalevichNorman Rockwell
Johannes Vermeer · photorealists · Caravaggio · photorealism · trompe-l'oeil