The Suprematists' interest in abstraction was fired by a search for the 'zero degree' of painting, the point beyond which the medium could not go without ceasing to be art. Suprematists made their composition out of simple geometrical shapes connected with each other or instead deliberately assymetrical. "I transformed myself in the zero form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation" - Kazimir Malevich.