Black Circle | |
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Artist | Kazimir Malevich |
Year | 1924 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Location | State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
Black Circle (or motive 1915) is a 1924 oil-on-canvas painting by the Kyiv-born Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich, founder of the Suprematism movement. From the mid-1910s, Malevich abandoned any trace of figurature or representation from his paintings in favour of pure abstraction.