Kazimir Malevich was a pioneering avant-garde Russian painter and founder of the Suprematist school of abstract painting. His early work was impacted by impressionism as well as symbolism and fauvism, it was only after visiting Paris in 1912 where he was influenced by Picasso and cubism. Soon after Malevich started creating abstract geometrical patterns in a process he called Suprematism. It was during this period where he painted one of his most influential works; Black Square (1915) and Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918).