Suprematic Group 1920

Kazimir Malevich made this artwork, titled 'Suprematic Group', at an unknown date with unknown materials. Just looking at this image, it's like a high-contrast dance between pure white and dense black. It's not just the stark contrast that grabs you, but the texture. If you zoom in, the black squares aren't solid, they're made of a million tiny marks, almost like cosmic dust or static electricity. It gives the piece a kind of vibrating energy, like it’s not quite still. That texture and surface, to me, shows Malevich's engagement with the materiality of art. I think of Ad Reinhardt, another painter who pared things down to black and white, exploring subtle shifts in tone and surface. Both artists invite us to look closely, to find the infinite within the seemingly simple, which is what abstract art is all about.