White on White
Kazimir Malevich · 1918
The story
Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918) is an abstract oil-on-canvas painting by Kazimir Malevich. It is one of the more well-known examples of the Russian Suprematism movement, painted the year after the October Revolution. The white square is one of the Malevich's three suprematist squares, the other two being black and red.
- Artist
- Kazimir Malevich
- Date
- 1918
- Collection
- MoMA, New York, United States
- Movement
- Suprematism, Russian avant-garde
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 79.4 × 79.4 cm
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