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The Suprematism art movement, founded by the Kiev-born painter Kasimir Malevich in 1915, characterized by elementary geometric forms (squares, circles).
Kazimir Malevich - Supremus 56 - 1915
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Kazimir Malevich - Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying - 1915.
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It was one of several modern art movements developed in Russia during the early 20th century.
RU Futurism
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Others included Russian Futurism (c.1912-14) founded by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
El Lissitzky's poster for the post Rev drama Victory Over the Sun. The multilingual caption reads: All is well that begins well & has not ended.
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Also Rayonism (1912-15) founded by Mikhail Larionov;
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Cats by Natalia Goncharova is a vivid example of Rayism, a style that emerged in late 1912
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Mikhail Larionov - Red Rayonism - 1913
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The concurrent Constructivism Movement (c.1919-1930) was founded by Vladimir Tatlin influenced by the modernized Industrial Age. This is his famous sculpture Monument to the Third International from 1919.
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Vladimir Tatlin - Counter Relief - 1914-15
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Suprematism eclipsed Rayonism & co-existed with Vladimir Tatlin's Constructivism during the period of the Russian Revolution up until 1921.
Kazimir Malevich - Untitled - 1916 - Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy
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Suprematism is the first movement of pure geometrical abstraction in painting, developed by Kazimir Malevich in Russia in about 1913.
Kazimir Malevich - Suprematist Composition -1916
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In Malevich’s first Suprematist work, a pencil drawing of a black square on a white field.
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Kazimir Malevich - Black Square - 1915 (He painted four versions 1915 to 1923)
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Kasimir Malevich's 'Black Square': which he identified the black square as having ‘feeling’ & the white background expressed “the void beyond this feeling.”
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Most of Malevich’s early Suprematist compositions most likely date from 1913, they were not exhibited until 1915.
Kazimir Malevich - Black Square and Red Square, 1915
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Which is also the same year he edited the Suprematist manifesto “From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: New Painterly Realism.”
Kazimir Malevich - Black Circle, 1915
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The first Suprematist works, consisted of simple geometrical forms such as squares, circles, and crosses.
Kazimir Malevich - Suprematist Painting (with Black Trapezium and Red Square), 1915
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Kazimir Malevich - White on White', oil on canvas, 1918, Museum of Modern Art
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In addition, Malevich limited his palette to black, white, red, green, and blue.
Ivan Vasilyevich Klyun
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By 1916–17 Malevich was presenting more complex shapes (fragments of circles, tiny triangles); extending his color range to include brown, pink, and mauve.
Ivan Vasilyevich Klyun
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Malevich also increased the complexity of spatial relationships; & introduced the illusion of 3D into his painting.
Jean Pougny (Ivan Puni) Suprematist Relief-Sculpture 1920s (reconstruction of 1915 original)
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“His experiments culminated in the White on White paintings of 1917–18, in which color was eliminated, & the faintly outlined square barely emerged from its background.”
Jean Pougny (Ivan Puni)
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Malevich announced the end of the Suprematist movement at a one-man exhibition of his work in 1919 (“Tenth State Exhibition: Non-objective Creation and Suprematism”).
Olga Rozanova (Note 3D effect)
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Suprematism enthusiasts included artists Ivan Klyun, Ivan Puni, and Olga Rozanova.
Olga Rozanova - Composition - 1916
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While not affiliated with the movement, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky showed the influence of Suprematism in the geometrization of his forms after 1920.
Wassily Kandinsky - Black Relationship - 1924
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The geometrical style, plus other abstract trends in Russian art, was amplified by Kandinsky & the Russian artist El Lissitzky & influenced the 1920s Bauhaus Movement in Germany.
Wassily Kandinsky - Empor (In Alto) (1929)
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Wassily Kandinsky - Upward - 1929
Peggy Guggenheim Museum
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Proun G7 by El Lissitzky.
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Russian Agitprop illustration Krasnym Bej Belych, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919-1920) by El Lissitzky. Courtesy Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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El Lissitzky - Untitled - Guggenheim Museum
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El Lissitzky
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The Vitra Fire Station in Well Am Rhein, Germany by Zaha Hadid
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If you like this ✔️out #PopArt, #GermanExpressionism, #PreRaphaelites, #Dadaism #Surrealism. #Bauhaus & #AshCanSchool #Fauvism #Futurism #Vorticism
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