Suprematist Painting 1916

Kazimir Malevich made this painting of geometric forms sometime around the early 20th century, likely with oils on canvas, and called it "Suprematist Painting." The painting is full of floating shapes, rectangles, and lines that overlap and intersect. It makes me think about how the act of painting is really an investigation. What does it mean to put a red line near a black square? Is there a right or wrong way to do it? Maybe Malevich was onto something, using painting to discover new ways of seeing and feeling. I can imagine him moving those shapes around, trying different arrangements until something clicked. It reminds me of Mondrian and other artists who were trying to reduce things down to their essence, searching for some kind of visual truth. It shows how all painters are participating in this long, ongoing conversation, challenging each other, and building on each other's ideas.