Wassily Kandinsky - Utopian/Communist Thinker/Artist
and the Russian Constructivists/Suprematists and the Bauhaus school/DeStijl school
Had outlined a "NEW" meaning for all of these sort of basic geometric shapes and colors...
Specifically in Kandinskys manifesto..."Concerning the Spiritual in Art"
which I find to be a bit rigid in defining things but interesting nonetheless
because people working within those schools of thought were adhereing...
to Kandinsky - Black represents the soul...
so when you see black in a Kandinsky painting you know...
But that's where we get things like "Red Square" the famous meeting block in Russia
Malivich Black and Red square...
and the Architectural masterpiece...Monument to the Third International by Vladimir Tatlin
which was a spiraling
right triangle to represent the "upward and forward motion of the people"
It was basically a building that moved like a clock...
They believed that the designer and the craft person...much like the intellectual and the commoner
Needed to be united because their skill sets - when applied with an understanding of each other...
was necessary to achieve utopia - communist utopia
The color red was commonly found in religious icons - and they loved the color but hated the religious implications
so they applied the red to geometries

These religious paintings were most often placed in the top corner of a room where the walls and the ceiling intersect to represent the trinity...

...the artist of the time replaced the religion - with abstractions and materials that represent the inspired craftsmen...
the move towards...Iconic Geometries
but what I'm trying to get at...is that
with those guys...the triangle represented a mass in motion
Geometries have all sorts of meanings through time and with different peoples.
Gabo
Rodchenko
