Suprematism

Suprematism was a Russian abstract art movement founded by Kazimir Malevich, first presented publicly at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd in December 1915, where Malevich showed Black Square, a plain black square on a white ground he considered the zero point of painting, the total rejection of representation in favor of pure geometric form and feeling. Malevich held that basic shapes, squares, circles, crosses and rectangles, painted in flat, often primary colors and set adrift against white grounds, could express what he called the supremacy of pure artistic feeling over depiction of the visible world. The movement emerged from and briefly overlapped with Cubo-Futurism before pushing past it into total abstraction, and though short-lived as a defined group, its radical geometric vocabulary shaped Constructivism and, through El Lissitzky, the Bauhaus and international design.