Although not cited by Karmel, it is important to note that Kazimir Malevich and Naum Gabo also began exploring the corner around this period with Malevich hanging his painting «
Black Square,» 1915 across a top corner space in the
seminal 1915 - 16 exhibition «The Last Futurist Exhibition: 0, 10» in St. Petersburg, Russia.
But it was Kazimir Malevich who today is often viewed as the forefather of geometric abstraction, beginning with his
seminal 1915 paintings of
black shapes — a circle, a
square — on a white ground, and his legendary white -
square - on - white - canvas 1919 monochrome.