Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (Russian: Казимир Северинович Малевич) was a painter and main representative of the Russian avant-garde, pioneer of constructivism and founder of Suprematism. He was influenced by late impressionism, fauvism and cubism. His abstract suprematist painting The Black Square on a White Background from 1915 is considered a milestone in modern painting and is referred to as an “icon of modernism”.