Why it matters
Eight red rectangles float on a white ground, perhaps suspended in space, perhaps seen from above: Malevich was fascinated by aerial photography. It belongs to the more dynamic phase of Suprematism.
Did you know?
- Malevich founded Suprematism around 1913.
- He described its three stages as black, colour and white.
- He later criticised this phase as 'aerial suprematism'.
Based on the Catalan Wikipedia article Pintura suprematista. Vuit rectangles rojos (CC BY-SA 4.0).
