#squares

Art the community tagged “squares” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Jul 25

Suprematist Composition: White on White by Kazimir Malevich, 1918

Suprematist Composition: White on White

Museum of Modern Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

It's the third of three squares he painted — black first, then red, then this one. The idea, as far as I understand it, was to strip painting back to nothing but feeling, and it came the year after the revolution, when everything around him was being pulled apart and rebuilt too.