10. Black Square and Red Square - Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square and Red Square" serves as a pivotal exploration of modernist thought. "Black Square," created in 1915, measures 795 x 795 cm and symbolizes the zenith of nonobjective art, exhibited at The Last Futurist Exhibition 010.. His Black Square (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew "an uncrossable line (…) between old art and new art"; Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take his ideal.
The final Black Square is the smallest and may have been intended as a diptych along with the smaller again Red Square for the 1932 exhibition Artists of the RSFSR: 15 Years in Leningrad, where the two squares formed the centerpiece of the show. [17]. His Black Square (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew "an uncrossable line (…) between old art and new art"; Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take his ideal.