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Kazimir Malevich painted a black square on a canvas about two and half feet square in Moscow in either 1913 (according to his own claims) or in 1915 (as some art historians claim based upon forensic evidence).^[1][2] The painting is commonly known as Black Square, The Black Square or as Malevich's Black Square. The painting was first shown in The Last Futurist Exhibition 0.10 in 1915.

The work is frequently invoked by critics, historians, curators, and artists as the “zero point of painting."Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

A plurality art historians, curators, and critics refer to Black Square as one of the seminal works of modern art, and of Abstract Art in the Western painterly tradition generally.

In 1915, in Moscow, Kazimir Malevich painted a black square against a white ground on a canvas about two and a half feet square and called it a work of Suprematism. Further elaborating on the significance of his black square, Malevich remarked. I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.