suprematism

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Suprematism (uncountable)

(art) A genre of abstract art based on simple geometric forms championed by the Russian avant-garde in the early twentieth century.

suprematism

Alternative letter-case form of Suprematism

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This is the model we await from Kasimir Malevich. AFTER THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE CAME THE NEW AFTER THE NEW THE COMMUNIST AND AFTER THE COMMUNIST THERE FOLLOWS FINALLY THE TESTAMENT OF SUPREMATISM. [But in this text postponed in a far wider concept than Malevich meant his Suprematism ]. El Lissitsky

By Suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling. Kazimir Malevich

I have not invented anything, only the night I have sensed, and in it the new which I called Suprematism. Kazimir Malevich

..into this chaos [after the Bolshevik' revolution] came suprematism extolling the square [referring to the Squares of Malevich] as the very source of all creative expression, and then came communism and extolled work as the true source of man's heartbeat. El Lissitsky

At the present time man's path lies through space, and Suprematism is a colour metaphor in its infinite abyss. [1916]. Kazimir Malevich

This is the model we await from Kasimir Malevich. AFTER THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE CAME THE NEW AFTER THE NEW THE COMMUNIST AND AFTER THE COMMUNIST THERE FOLLOWS FINALLY THE TESTAMENT OF SUPREMATISM. El Lissitsky

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