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Suprematist Composition

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Oil on canvas by Kazimir Malevich (1916). A dynamic arrangement of colored geometric planes — rectangles, squares, a circle — rotating in apparent weightlessness on a white ground. One of the definitive works of Suprematism's color-plane phase following the Black Square. MoMA, New York.

Scholarly Significance

Core Suprematist work post-Black Square; expands Malevich cluster into the color-plane phase.

Notes

·The 1916 color-plane works follow the 'zero degree' statement of Black Square (1915).
·Malevich organized his Suprematist works in a quasi-cosmological hierarchy from single black shapes to complex multi-color compositions.
·This work was among those brought to Berlin for Malevich's 1927 exhibition; left in Germany when he returned to Soviet Russia.
·The Berlin works eventually entered western museum collections through Alfred Barr (MoMA) and Stedelijk Museum.
·The tilted, rotating arrangement of planes was described by Malevich as 'aeroplane sensations' — vertical ascent.