Suprematism (Russian: Супремати́зм) is an art movement focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, which are painted in a limited range of colours. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, and announced in Malevich's 1915 Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10, in St. Petersburg, where he, alongside 13 other artists, exhibited 36 works in a similar style.
The term suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects. Suprematism does not embrace a humanist philosophy which places man at the center of the universe. Rather, Suprematism envisions man—the artist—as both originator and transmitter of what for Malevich is the world's only true reality—that of absolute non-objectivity.
Artists[]
- Kazimir Malevich
- El Lissitsky
- Aleksandra Ekster
- Lyubov Popova
- Olga Rozanova
- Ivan Kliun
- Ivan Puni
- Nadezhda Udaltsova
- Nina Genke-Meller
- Kseniya Boguslavskaya
- Ilya Chashnik
- Lazar Khidekel
- Sergei Senkin