Black Square

Black Square (1915) - painting by Kazimir Malevich. This painting is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 113^th most popular painting in English Wikipedia. Article “Black Square” in English Wikipedia has 65.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 45 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Russian.

In June 2026 the article “Black Square” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Black Square”, its content was written by 89 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 656 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Black Square (1915) is on the 113^th place in local ranking of paintings in English Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 326 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1510 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10612 in November 2024
• Global: #7347 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #61445 in June 2020
• Global: #15407 in November 2015

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Black Square		65.8124
2	Russian (ru) Чёрный квадрат		65.6767
3	Korean (ko) 검은 사각형		55.2366
4	Armenian (hy) Սև քառակուսի		47.8521
5	Romanian (ro) Pătrat negru (pictură)		47.742
6	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний квадрат		43.8356
7	Finnish (fi) Musta neliö		42.0665
8	Uzbek (uz) Qora kvadrat		40.1415
9	German (de) Das Schwarze Quadrat		34.3029
10	Dutch (nl) Zwart vierkant		33.5197

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Black Square" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Чёрный квадрат		5 737 099
2	English (en) Black Square		1 293 185
3	German (de) Das Schwarze Quadrat		620 935
4	French (fr) Carré noir sur fond blanc		336 125
5	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний квадрат		332 643
6	Polish (pl) Czarny kwadrat na białym tle		285 196
7	Italian (it) Quadrato nero		137 509
8	Spanish (es) Cuadrado negro		115 719
9	Finnish (fi) Musta neliö		92 715
10	Japanese (ja) 黒の正方形		90 756

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Black Square" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Чёрный квадрат		11 243
2	English (en) Black Square		6 707
3	German (de) Das Schwarze Quadrat		2 186
4	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний квадрат		1 278
5	Polish (pl) Czarny kwadrat na białym tle		955
6	Italian (it) Quadrato nero		911
7	Spanish (es) Cuadrado negro		844
8	French (fr) Carré noir sur fond blanc		681
9	Japanese (ja) 黒の正方形		553
10	Dutch (nl) Zwart vierkant		369

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Black Square" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Чёрный квадрат		238
2	English (en) Black Square		89
3	German (de) Das Schwarze Quadrat		52
4	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний квадрат		48
5	French (fr) Carré noir sur fond blanc		47
6	Polish (pl) Czarny kwadrat na białym tle		22
7	Finnish (fi) Musta neliö		21
8	Dutch (nl) Zwart vierkant		21
9	Italian (it) Quadrato nero		17
10	Spanish (es) Cuadrado negro		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Black Square" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Square		3
2	German (de) Das Schwarze Quadrat		1
3	Persian (fa) مربع سیاه		1
4	Russian (ru) Чёрный квадрат		1
5	Belarusian (be) Чорны квадрат		0
6	Catalan (ca) Quadrat negre sobre fons blanc		0
7	Czech (cs) Černý čtverec		0
8	Danish (da) Sort kvadrat		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Nigra kvadrato		0
10	Spanish (es) Cuadrado negro		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Black Square" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) مربع سیاه		341
2	English (en) Black Square		326
3	Swedish (sv) Svart kvadrat		297
4	Czech (cs) Černý čtverec		115
5	Russian (ru) Чёрный квадрат		99
6	French (fr) Carré noir sur fond blanc		47
7	Korean (ko) 검은 사각형		44
8	German (de) Das Schwarze Quadrat		39
9	Catalan (ca) Quadrat negre sobre fons blanc		38
10	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний квадрат		33

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Чорны квадрат
ca	Catalan Quadrat negre sobre fons blanc
cs	Czech Černý čtverec
da	Danish Sort kvadrat
de	German Das Schwarze Quadrat
en	English Black Square
eo	Esperanto Nigra kvadrato
es	Spanish Cuadrado negro
eu	Basque Karratu beltza
fa	Persian مربع سیاه
fi	Finnish Musta neliö
fr	French Carré noir sur fond blanc
hy	Armenian Սև քառակուսի
it	Italian Quadrato nero
ja	Japanese 黒の正方形
kk	Kazakh Қара шаршы
ko	Korean 검은 사각형
la	Latin Quadratum nigrum
nl	Dutch Zwart vierkant
pl	Polish Czarny kwadrat na białym tle
ro	Romanian Pătrat negru (pictură)
ru	Russian Чёрный квадрат
sr	Serbian Црни квадрат (слика)
sv	Swedish Svart kvadrat
tr	Turkish Siyah Kare
uk	Ukrainian Чорний квадрат
uz	Uzbek Qora kvadrat
zh	Chinese 黑方塊

Best Rank

English: #61445 06.2020

Global: #15407 11.2015

Best Rank

English: #10612 11.2024

Global: #7347 12.2013

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