The Suprematist Movement

About Suprematism

Nothing is real except sensations…
the sensation of non-objectivity.
— Kazimir Malevich

The Suprematist Movement was the first movement that produced purely geometrical abstract paintings. It was originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia around 1913. It focused mainly on the feeling that art brings and requires instead of art as “an accumulation” of representations “of things”. Malevich strongly rejected Academic art and sought to “free art from the ballast of objectivity.”

The key artists of the movement were Malevich, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Olga Rozanova. The movement was divided by Malevich into three strages: “black,” “colored,” and “white.” The beginning of the movement was marked by Malveich’s painting, “Black Square.” The color stage sought to create the sensation of movement through space through the use of shape and color, and because of this is sometimes called Dynamic Suprematism. The last stage expressed the transcendent state Malevich believed was reached through Suprematism through white forms on blank canvases.