Retrospectively, Malevich
declared that his backdrop for the second act, fifth scene of
Victory over the Sun was the first public display of
Suprematism.
Certainly, the large square divided diagonally recalls his painting
"Black Square." Still it is possible, in the context of the
play, to see this design as symbolic of the split between night
and day, and therefore as, at least in principle, representational
rather than purely abstract.