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Kasimir Malevitch is considered the inventor of abstraction. Together with Kandinsky and Mondrian, he challenged his predecessors on the form of art. "Black Square on a White Background" is a painting without an object, which belongs to a series of works called Supremacies. The name was inspired by his Suprematism movement. Malevitch later said: "There can be no question of painting in Suprematism. Painting is long out of date and the painter himself is a prejudice of the past.