Suprematist Composition: White Square on White, by Kazimir Malevich was nothing like anything anybody had ever seen at this time in art. According to The Doorway Into the Arts blog, Malevich was intrigued by airplanes, and that this painting was his attempt to create a feeling of floating and transcendence. It was supposed to be the feeling of being free of the material objects that had so readily taken the time and attention away from people in this time. It also says that the absence of strong color in this painting was meant to help viewers focus on the higher ways of thinking of things and that the absence of color in this painting made room for these thoughts to be brought about in a viewer's mind.
This painting makes me feel like there was something Malevich was trying to tell people subconsciously. He was trying to make people who saw this painting dig deeper into their own mind and discover parts of themselves that they may have not known existed had they never seen this painting, in my own opinion.
Another art blog takes the point that Malevich was optimistic about the Russian Revolution and was looking forward to the freedom that was going to be found after the war had been fought. Again, this blog contends that Malevich's interest in airplanes made him paint this as if the viewer would be floating above the canvas as they looked down upon this painting.
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