
Black Square
1915 · Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Malevich hung it high in the corner where a Russian house keeps its icons, and called it the zero of form.
★ 8.5

Malevich hung it high in the corner where a Russian house keeps its icons, and called it the zero of form.

Colored bars drift at diagonals across a white void with no ground under them, which Malevich meant as pure feeling and nothing else.